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Open Letter To The Holy Father [ blog.ancient-future.net] Your Holiness,
in sonly confidence we announce to You that we, Markian V. Hitiuk OSBM, Metoděj R. �piř�k OSBM, Eli� A. Dohnal OSBM and Samuel R. Oberhauser were consecrated Greek-Catholic bishops. We did it in conscious obedience to You, Your Holiness � out of a desire for the salvation of our Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church (UGCC).
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Bishops, priests, religious and laymen have opened themselves to the spirit of occultism (homoeopathy, acupuncture, oriental meditations, modern psychological methods�) and syncretism with pagan religions (yoga, zen, martial arts, oriental philosophies�). However, the height of all is that there are still more and more bishops and priests who are homosexuals or paedophiles. In our Greek-Catholic Church there are several homosexual bishops, which is a scandal and decay of Christianity in its substance.
Who are these Ukraine Catholic Bishops? Anyone have any information on this?
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Here is the response from the UGCC: Ukrainian Greek Catholic Head Denounces �Pseudo-Bishops�
26.03.2008, [17:37] // UGCC //
Kyiv � On 23 March, the Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Patriarch Lubomyr (Husar) stated that three hieromonks of the Order of Saint Basil the Great, the so-called �Pidhirtsi village fathers,� contrary to their claims, are not consecrated bishops of UGCC. The full text of the patriarch�s official statement follows below.
OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION FROM THE UKRAINIAN GRECO-CATHOLIC CHURCH
Press Release
http://www.ugcc.org.ua/ukr/press-releases/article;6604/
23 March 2008
In recent days, it has come to our attention that hieromonks of the Order of Saint Basil the Great, Elijah A. Dohnal, Methodius R. Shpirzhyk, Markian V.. Hitiuk and the priest Robert Oberhauser have declared that they have been consecrated bishops of the Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church. As the Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church, I wish to make known the following:
1. The Synod of Bishops of the UGCC never proposed the above-mentioned persons as candidates for the Episcopal office,
2. They have never received the blessing of the Roman Pontiff, as is required by ecclesial law,
3. thus, regardless of their announcement, they can not be regarded as bishops of the Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church.
I wish to remind all that according to Church legislation - in particular the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches (canon 1495, �1) � if bishops without the mandate of the competent authority of the Synod of Bishops under the leadership of the Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halych, and especially without the blessing of the Holy Father the Pope of Rome, would consecrate someone a bishop, and if were to receive ordination from them under such circumstances, then, in such an event: those who ordained and those who were ordained should be punished with a major excommunication, i.e. by being cut off from the Catholic Church.
The clergy and religious are forbidden to welcome or to invite the abovementioned persons to perform any priestly function whatsoever.
Issued in Kyiv at the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ
23rd day of March in the year of Our Lord 2008
+ Lubomyr
http://www.risu.org.ua/eng/news/article;21444/
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Who are these Ukraine Catholic Bishops? Anyone have any information on this? They are four renegade would-be Basilians who were secretly consecrated by a bishop who claims to have been secretly consecrated himself by two hiearchs who are passed away. See here for more details. [ blog.ancient-future.net]
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Do they have supporting evidence for those claims? They seem quite serious.
What happened to the bishop who was excommunicated for attending an ordination?
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They seemed to have framed their letter with a sound mind. Do they teach a "renegade" theology, or is the only issue their ordination.
I could understand an argument grounded in the complications of the history of their church and its dealings with Communism. What happened to the Greek Catholics under Stalin and Khrushchev�s nose was shameful.
Is their reconciliation in good faith? Will they have an audience with Pope Benedict XVI? (Excuse me if any of these have been answered, my Internet use has to be quick at work and I did not read all the links in full.)
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Here is the response from the UGCC: Are these people excommunicated then?
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Hi, homoeopathy, acupuncture, oriental meditations, modern psychological methods� Let's play "one of these things doesn't belong with the others". Regardless of their individual scientific merits, homeopathy, acupuncture and modern psycological methods all of these have in common that they do not have anything to do with a "spirit of occultism". Each of them have cultural influences, yes, and each of them have a claim for scientific basis, understanding that science changes and evolves from culture to culture and from time to time. On the other hand, oriental meditation does have some non-Christian religious elements to it and I generally do not recommend it for committed Christians. I wonder what, other than ignorance, could have made these ex-priests to throw all these things together as if they belonged with each other. Shalom, Memo
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They appear to be unhappy with the process of de-latinization.
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I wonder what, other than ignorance, could have made these ex-priests to throw all these things together as if they belonged with each other. The letter doesn't clarify whether or not they are excommunicated. It actually uses hypothetical language.
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So the separation is for theology and because their praxis of faith is in disunity with Rome?
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I read the comments in the link. Very interesting. "Melkite Cancer". Nice.
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I wonder what, other than ignorance, could have made these ex-priests to throw all these things together as if they belonged with each other. The letter doesn't clarify whether or not they are excommunicated. It actually uses hypothetical language. Excommunication is done after investigation... It isn't clear exactly that they in fact were ordained bishops even just yet.
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What is this so-called "Melkite Cancer" of which they accuse the Melkite Patriarch?
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What is this so-called "Melkite Cancer" of which they accuse the Melkite Patriarch? I didn't happen to notice any accusations against the Melkite Patriarch - you could always ask in the combox in question what the commentators themselves are meaning.
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The general tone seems unfriendly to me; from the words "Melkite cancer", the description of the tenure of the Melkite patriarch as "misguided" and the generic accusation laid at the feet of Russian Orthodox Christians for the Communist persecutions.
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