Policy & Procedures

Policies

• Conditions Permitting Non-Catholics to Receive Sacraments from a Catholic Minister (2006)

• Parish Pastoral Council Guidelines (2006)

• The Parish Community: a Gathering of the Baptized - (a Guide for Assessment, Analysis, and Evaluation of the Operations, Viability, Success and Future of a parish (part 1)

Pastoral Letters

• The Feast of the Nativity of the Lord: 2010 Pastoral Letter of the Bishop fo the Canadian Metropolia

  З Нагоди Різдва Христового 2010 Пастирське Послання Єпископів Канади

• On the 75th Anniversary of the Holodomor

  З Приводу 75-Річчя Пам’яті Голодомору

  Ukrainian Catholic Bishops of Canada - September 14, 2007

• Anniversary Homilies

  Ювілейні Проповіді

  Ukrainian Catholic Bishops of Canada - September 1, 2006

• On the 50th Anniversary of the Winnipeg Metropolia

  Metropolitan LAWRENCE - March 28, 2006

• Pastoral Message on the 50th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Metropolia of Canada

  Пасторальний Лист з нагоди Золотого Ювілею Української Католицької Митрополії Канади

  Ukrainian Catholic Bishops of Canada - January 30, 2006

• Pastoral Note on the Creed and the Filioque

  Символ Віри та Filioque

  Ukrainian Catholic Bishops of Canada - September 1, 2005

Official Documents

Modern Church Documents:

• Decree on the Eastern Catholic Churches

  Orientalium Ecclesarium - Vatican II Council (November 21, 1964)

• Applying the Liturgical Prescriptions of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches

  Congregation for the Eastern Churches (January 6, 1996)

• Decree on Ecumenism

  Uniatis Redintegratio - Vatican II Council (November 21, 1964)

• Canons of the Particular Law of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

  Канони Партикулярного Права Української Греко-Католицької Церкви

Evangelization:

• A Practical Guide to Evangelization for Byzantine Catholic Parishes

  Anthony Dragani

Other Modern Documents

• The Light of the East

  Orientale Lumen - Pope John Paul II (May 2, 1995)

• On the Fourth Centenary of the Treaty of Brest

  Apostolic Letter - Pope John Paul II (November 12, 1995)

• Eastern Theology Has Enriched the Whole Church

  Pope John Paul II (August 11, 1996)

Our Church's Ecumenical Mandate

• That They May Be One

  Ut Unum Sint - Pope John Paul II (May 25, 1995)

• Ad Tuendam Fidem

  Pope John Paul II. Apostolic Letter Motu Proprio by which certain norms are inserted into the CCEO (may 18, 1998)

• On the Unity in Christ

  Patriarch Josyf Slipyj (June 3, 1976)

• Eastern Churches Called to Twofold Fidelity

  Pope John Paul II (November 17, 1999)

Historical Documents:

• On the Propagation of the Faith and Eastern Churches

  Christi Nomen - Pope Leo XIII (December 24, 1894)

• On the Churches of the East

  Orientalium Dignitas - Pope Leo XIII (November 30, 1894)

• On the Observance of the Oriental Rites

  Allatae Sunt - Pope Benedict XIV (July 26, 1755)

• Concerning Ritual Matters

  Metropolitan Andrew Sheptytsky (April 13, 1931)

Other Documents

• Anamnesis, Not Amnesia: The "Healing of Memories" and the Problem of "Uniatism"

  Fr. Robert Taft, SJ, 21st Kelly Lecture, University of Toronto (December 1, 2000)

• "Eastern Presuppositions" and Western Liturgical Renewal

  Fr. Robert Taft, SJ, Reflections on the dynamics of modern liturgical renewal, especially in its earlier theoretical phases anterior to Vatican II and its aftermath.