As a result of Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill's praiseworthy reconciliation agreement last week with the head of the Catholic Church in Poland, Patriarch Sviatoslav Shevchuk -- the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) -- is calling for a similar dialogue with the Moscow Patriarchate, the RISU (Religious Information Service of Ukraine) website reports exclusively today (August 21, 2012).
Patriarch Shevchuk made his feelings of a dialogue known on August 19 at a Ukrainian press conference in which he said, "We also should follow such way of a certain reconciliation."
He added, "Without this, it is impossible to stop the Russification of Ukraine and the Ukrainophobia in Russia."
Patriarch Shevchuk concluded, "And if we try somehow to settle the painful questions of the past as Christians, in the light of the Gospel, and to heal our memory only by means of reconciliation, then we can build something constructive."
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