Fr. Michael Winn

archeparchy.ca There is a global effort by Catholics inspired by “Laudato Si” - Pope Francis’ encyclical on safeguarding the environment - to become personally active in doing something about climate change and renewing the environment. Some have hailed the 2015 encyclical as unique and even bold as far as Papal documents go. Others observe that the Holy Father simply states what the Catholic attitude toward God’s gift of nature and the earth’s resources has always been (should have been) since creation. If you haven’t given the encyclical a good reading over, you can find it on many sites of the…

Kyiv, Ukraine - On May 31, 2017, at 18:30 after a serious illness His Beatitude Lubomyr (Husar), Archbishop Emeritus of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Church died at the age of 85. January 26, 2001 - February 10, 2011 he served as a Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. Born in Lviv, Ukraine, on February 26, 1933, Lubomyr Husar fled from Ukraine with his parents in 1944, ahead of the advancing Soviet army. He spent the early post-World War II years among Ukrainian refugees in a displaced persons camp near Salzburg, Austria. In 1949, he emigrated with his…