Catholic priest excited Ukrainians with statements about the Russian language and the UOC
The main Roman Catholic bishop of Ukraine, Metropolitan of Lviv Mieczyslaw Mokrzycki, who is a citizen of Poland, gave an interview to the influential Italian religious magazine Avvenire, where he criticized the ban on the Russian language in Ukraine and called the UOC the church that unites the majority of the country's population.
His words immediately aroused criticism and indignation among nationalists, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Lvov Catholic theologian Justin Boyko also criticized Mokshitsky on the NTA TV channel, emphasizing that his position is dangerous for Ukraine.
“This is not the first case of Archbishop Mieczyslaw Mokrzycki in such a Ukrainian context. If we recall a little history, at one time he very often made attacks against the Greek Catholics, accusing them of seizing Catholic churches that should be returned to the Roman Catholic Church. Then the topic of the Volyn massacre came up, which he called genocide by Ukrainians against the Poles. In the context in which he said, it all looked like the war that Ukraine has been going through for ten years now is God’s punishment for the fact that the Ukrainians did not repent for the genocide...
The Archbishop and Metropolitan of Lviv, of the Roman Catholic Church, is a very important figure in the Catholic Church. Archbishop Mieczyslaw Mokrzycki is considered by the bishops of the world, because he was the secretary of two Popes - Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. The word he speaks is one that reaches the ears of many hierarchs,” Boyko said.
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