UKRAINIAN MARTYRS ACKNOWLEDGED AT ECUMENICAL GATHERING
September 15, 2022
POPE ACKNOWLEDGES UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC MARTYRS AT ECUMENICAL GATHERING IN KAZAKHSTAN
"I would say a special word to bishops, priests and seminarians: our mission is not to be administrators of the sacred or enforcers of religious rules, but pastors close to our people, living icons of the compassionate heart of Christ. I would recall too the blessed Greek-Catholic martyrs - Bishop Budka, Father Zaryczkyj, and Gertrude Detzel - whose beatification process has now begun. [...] they brought the love of Christ to the world. You are their heirs, so be the promise of a new flowering of sanctity!"
