Texts by UCU authors
Slow-Motion Anschluss (National Review Online)
By George Weigel Putin refines an old totalitarian tactic. Reading Eugene Robinson’s witless recycling of Kremlin propaganda on the op-ed page of the March 11 Washington Post, a scene from…
Ukrainian Bishop: ‘Blood Is a Serious Thing’ (National Catholic Register)
by JIM GRAVES Bishop Borys Gudziak says the ouster of President Yanukovych was a step towards a freer country and could lead to a new spiritual reality, but Ukraine’s journey…
Ukrainian Priest Discusses His Homeland and the Perils of the Russian Presence in Crimea (National Catholic Register)
A Register interview with Father Yuriy Sakvuk of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. Father Yuriy Sakvuk, 38, is a priest in the Ukrainian Greek [Byzantine rite] Catholic Church, an eastern…
Ukrainian Priest Visits Franciscan University, Speaks on Crisis in Home Country (WTRF7)
STEUBENVILLE – From Ukraine to Steubenville, comes a direct connection to what Ukrainian protesters call the “Revolution of Dignity.” Father Yuriy Sakvuk and the Franciscan University of Steubenville had planned…
Crimea: Russia’s Next Afghanistan? (The New York Times)
By OLGA DUKHNICH SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine — Since Saturday, the headquarters of the government of Crimea — an autonomous region of Ukraine — have been occupied by special forces whose uniforms…
What can Ukraine expect from the West now?
I write to you as a former prisoner of conscience of the Brezhnev era. All other titles are rapidly losing sense in the light of the bleeding Ukrainian Maidan. All…
The Ukrainian Struggle: Freedom with Dignity Over Corruption and Power (Crisis Magazine)
by Alexander R. Sich In 1998 my family returned to the U.S. from our first home leave overseas, for what eventually ended up being twelve years living and working in…
Ukrainian Agreements (National Review Online)
Parliament moves to curb Yanukovych’s power, but skeptics say he has to go. By George Weigel As the world watches the closing of the Sochi Olympics on Sunday evening, the…
Ukraine: The Bishop of Gudziak urges Europe to stop Putin (La Stampa)
Francesca Paci Rome The President of Ukraine’s Catholic university says he is continuing to pray with the Maidan square protesters because they belong to the Francis school of thought: a…
Agent West
Memorial Service Speech at the Ukrainian Catholic University, February 21, 2014 We gathered to honor the memory of our lecturer and colleague Bohdan Solchanyk. He was born July 25, 1985….