Proceedings Of Moscow Seminar On Greek Catholic Church Published

The Mykola Mitrokhin Institute of Religious Studies in the CIS and Baltic States, the international society “Memorial” and the Heinrich Boell Foundation have released a collection of reports from a recent seminar on the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC). The seminar, entitled “The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church: Dispelling the Myth,” was held in Moscow on 25 November 2002. This news was reported by the Russian Catholic information agency “Blagovest-info” (“Good News-info”) on 18 December 2002.
The 148-page collection includes articles and excerpts of speeches by Viktor Yelenskyi of Kyiv, chief editor of the religious journal “Liudyna I Svit” ("Person and World”), Fr. Yosyf Milian, head of the Patriarchal Commission on Youth Affairs of the UGCC, Fr. Myron Bendyk, rector of the Drohobych Eparchial Catechetical Institute of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), Mykola Mitrokhin , director of the Institute of Religious Studies in the CIS and Baltic States, and Prof. Myroslav Marynovych, vice-rector of external affairs and director of the Institute of Religion and Society at the Ukrainian Catholic University. In addition, the publication also contains a document from the archives of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union Communist Party entitled “The Church That Is Accustomed to Trusting the Authorities.” This is a stenographic protocol of the talk of 1 February 1990 between A.I. Lukyanov, deputy chairman of the Supreme Council of the USSR and the hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church. Among the participants of that talk were two current heads of Orthodox churches in Ukraine. Source: http://blagovest-media.ru/news_2.shtml