Article: Cleric voices optimism on Catholic-Orthodox unity

Christopher Guly
Ukrainian Weekly, The
04-24-1994
Cleric voices optimism on Catholic-Orthodox unity.

OTTAWA - Six years ago, the Rev. Andriy Chirovsky might have raised his eyebrows at those speculating over an independent Ukraine. Now, the director of the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptysky Institute of Eastern Christain Studies at Ottawa's St. Paul University in Ottawa is among the soothsayers forecasting unity between the Ukrainian Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox Churches.

"Pope John Paul II said that it was his fondest hope that the Orthodox and Catholics would unite by the year 2000," said the Rev. Chirovsky. "I'm taking this general question and applying it to the Ukrainian situation.

"Six ...

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