UCU Holds Press Conference on Cause of Sheptytsky Beatification 03.20.2008, [11:19] Lviv-- On 19 March 2008, the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) in western Ukrainian Lviv held a press conference in which Archbishop Ihor Vozniak of Lviv of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) assured the public that the beatification of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky is approaching finalization. Also participating in the conference was Myroslav Marynovych, UCU’s vice-rector for university mission. Metropolitan Sheptytsky was head of the UGCC from 1901 to 1944. Read more...
UCU Grads Help Found Theological Society in Stryi 03.04.2008, [14:42] Graduates of UCU on 29 February 2008 participated in a meeting in Stryi, Lviv Region, dedicated to the founding in the city of a branch of the Ukrainian Academic Theological Society (UATS). Read more...
UCU Catechists Ready to Go to Kherson 03.04.2008, [14:40] Kherson— Specialists from UCU’s Catechetical-Pedagogical Institute are ready to travel to southern Ukraine’s Kherson Region to share their experience and methods in teaching Christian ethics with local pedagogues. So reported Bishop Vasyl Ivasiuk, exarch of Odesa and Crimea of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, at a 28 February 2008 meeting with the head of the regional administration and various Christian, Jewish, and Muslim leaders. Read more...
UCU Dean Participates in 14th Assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life at Vatican 03.04.2008, [14:39] Rome—Fr. Ihor Boyko, Ph. D., dean of UCU’s Philosophy and Theology Faculty, took part in the 14th Assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life, held in the Vatican from 25-27 February 2008. The theme of the congress this year was "Close by the Incurable Sick Person and the Dying: Scientific and Ethical Aspects." Read more...
UCU Has “Very High Academic Level,” Says Cardinal Kasper 02.25.2008, [10:23] The Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) is “of a very high academic level with Catholic and Orthodox professors and students.” So said Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity, speaking about Catholic-Orthodox relations in an interview published by the American newspaper “Our Sunday Visitor” on 3 February 2008. Read more...
Lay Leadership Center Trains Kyiv Priests 02.25.2008, [10:22] Staff from UCU’s Lay Leadership Center conducted a seminar on the theme “Administration and organization of pastoral ministry in the parish” for priests of the Kyiv Archeparchy of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church on 20 February 2008. Read more...
UCU to open Lviv Business School 02.07.2008, [14:05] As of February 2008, the activities of the Lviv Business School at the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) have begun. A press conference at UCU on 6 February announced the opening of UCU’s new school. Read more...
UCU Catechists Give Presentation at Seminary 02.07.2008, [13:59] On 4 February 2008 at Holy Spirit Seminary in Lviv, a presentation of the Patriarchal Catechetical Commission of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) was held. It was led by Sr. Luiza Ciupa, head of the commission and director of the Catechetical-Pedagogical Institute (CPI) of the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU), and Fr. Taras Barshchevskyj, coordinator of CPI’s evening and extension programs. Read more...
Justice and Peace Cardinal Visits UCU 02.07.2008, [13:46] Cardinal Renato Rafaelle Martino, head of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and also the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People, visited the Ukrainian Catholic University in western Ukrainian Lviv on 4 February 2008 as part of an official visit to Ukraine. Read more...
UCU Holds Press Conference on Cause of Sheptytsky Beatification
