Books by Athanasius D . McVay
Матеріали міжнародної наукової онлайн конференції до 155-ліття від дня народження митрополита Андрея Шептицького (Presentations from the International Conference on the 155th Anniversary of the Birth of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky), 2021
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Histoire de la Délégation Apostolique du Saint-Siège au Canada (1877-1969), 2021
If the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church successfully took root in Canada, this was due, in large p... more If the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church successfully took root in Canada, this was due, in large part, to the intervention of the Roman See and its Apostolic Delegate. Local Roman Catholic churchmen were unable to find pastoral solutions for Ukrainian Canadians, who belonged to an ecclesial tradition that had to be sought outside of the Latin Church. This was a fact, or rather a necessity, which the Apostolic Delegates helped the Canadian bishops to accept and embrace. e growing acceptance of the Eastern Churches as being at home in Canada was part of a wider development that took place within the Latin Church, guided from above by the universal Magisterium of the Roman Pontiffs, and tested from below through local experience.
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Metropolitan Maxim Hermaniuk, Vatican II and the Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church, 2020
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ФРАНЦ КСАВЕРІЙ БОНН. «Ревніший українець за родовитих українців», 2020
Father Franz-Xavier Bonne in the Vatican Archives. History of the Ukrainian diplomatic mission to... more Father Franz-Xavier Bonne in the Vatican Archives. History of the Ukrainian diplomatic mission to the Holy See following the First World War.
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This volume recounts the history of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in Great Britain from the... more This volume recounts the history of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in Great Britain from the time of the first immigration, circa 1890, and especially from the canonical establishment of the Church in January 1947 to the end of 1970.
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Benedetto XV: Papa Giacomo della Chiesa nel mondo dell'inutile strage, 2017
Shared with gracious permission of Brepols (granted 14.1.2021) After centuries of Polish, Russian... more Shared with gracious permission of Brepols (granted 14.1.2021) After centuries of Polish, Russian, and Austrian rule, at the end of the First World War Ukraine enjoyed a brief independence, but not a day of peace. Until the twentieth century, the papacy’s relations with the stateless Ukrainian people had been ecclesiastical. From the second half of the nineteenth century, as a distinct nation began to manifest itself, the Holy See had to factor Ukraine into its outlook. Pope Benedict XV made a place for Ukraine in his proposals for an ethical peace. His open policy to the fledgling nation was influenced by Greek-Catholic primate, Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, and by Count Michael Tyshkevych, envoy of the Ukrainian National Republic to the Holy See. Attempting to remain “above the parties” during the Polish-Ukrainian War, the pontiff was represented by his envoy in Warsaw, Monsignor Achille Ratti. Criticism of Ratti led him to appoint Father Giovanni Genocchi as Apostolic Visitor to Ukraine, but ongoing war impeded Genocchi from fully carrying out the mission. In 1921, the Pope made several clamorous gestures in support of the besieged Ukrainians, but the Entente imposed a settlement of the victors over the vanquished. When Benedict XV died, in January 1922, condolences arrived at the Holy See declaring that: “Ukrainians have lost a friend and magnanimous protector.”
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https://annalesecclesiaeucrainae.blogspot.com/2016/11/benedict-xv-in-search-of-peace-for.html
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Патріярхат , Aug 2016
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“The Holy See and the Holodomor is a compact, interesting, and useful collection of previously un... more “The Holy See and the Holodomor is a compact, interesting, and useful collection of previously unpublished documents from the Vatican archives on the Church’s understanding of the Ukrainian famine, 1932-1933, and its efforts to find a way to provide relief. The Holy See knew about and publicized the tragic fate of the Ukrainian peasantry in those years. But there was little it could do to relieve the misery of the starving millions. This book helps us understand why.” — Prof. Norman Naimark
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The first comprehensive historical biography of Bishop Nykyta Budka. an important figure in Ukrai... more The first comprehensive historical biography of Bishop Nykyta Budka. an important figure in Ukrainian, Canadian, and Catholic history. His appointment on 15 July 1912, was the first time the Apostolic See of Rome named an Eastern Catholic bishop will full jurisdiction outside of the old continents of Europe and Asia. From an early age he became an educator of the Ukrainian people and supported their political and cultural freedom. He was one among hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian immigrants and he encouraged Ukrainian immigration to Canada throughout his life. His mission was to sustain Canadian Ukrainian Greek-Catholics in their faith. Budka achieved government recognition of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Canada as a legal entity. Facing the reality of assimilation he encouraged his flock to become good Canadians but also dedicated himself to preserving Ukrainian religious and cultural identity. Bishop Budka’s story is one of endurance. For fifteen years he traveled unceasingly, visiting the Ukrainian settlements scattered across Canada, celebrating the sacraments, teaching, preaching and comforting the faithful. He invited many Ukrainian priests from Europe and ordained local recruits to serve as missionaries in Canada. He relied upon religious sisters, brothers, and priests to promote Catholic and bilingual education. He sponsored lay people in higher education so that they would become conscientious and self-sacrificing community leaders. He was a poor administrator but a fantastic missionary. He did not receive sufficient financial support from his flock and was forced to rely on grants from Roman Catholic clergy and organizations. He faced bankruptcy on several occasions. In a climate of intense proselytism he battled with many political and religious opponents, who sought to draw his flock away from their Catholic Faith. Overwork, stress, and harsh conditions destroyed his delicate health. After requesting an assistant bishop several times, he was finally asked to resign. For the next seventeen years he provided moral support and spiritual ministry to Ukrainians under oppressive Polish, Nazi and Soviet regimes. Together with his fellow Ukrainian Catholic bishops, clergy, religious, and laity, he was arrested, tried, and condemned by Soviet authorities. He died in a prison camp in far-away Kazakhstan. The Catholic Church now numbers him among the heavenly martyrs and confessors of the Faith. His story can be described as a life of obedience, work, and love of the Lord Jesus Christ and God’s pilgrim people..
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Metropolitan Maxim Hermaniuk, Vatican II and the Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church, 2020
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Histoire de la délégation apostolique du Saint-Siège au Canada
If the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church successfully took root in Canada, this was due, in large p... more If the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church successfully took root in Canada, this was due, in large part, to the intervention of the Roman See and its Apostolic Delegate. Local Roman Catholic churchmen were unable to find pastoral solutions for Ukrainian Canadians, who belonged to an ecclesial tradition that had to be sought outside of the Latin Church. This was a fact, or rather a necessity, which the Apostolic Delegates helped the Canadian bishops to accept and embrace. e growing acceptance of the Eastern Churches as being at home in Canada was part of a wider development that took place within the Latin Church, guided from above by the universal Magisterium of the Roman Pontiffs, and tested from below through local experience.
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Annales Ecclesiae Ucrainae, 2021
Steps in the development of the Ukrainian Catholic mission in Canada into an ecclesiastical provi... more Steps in the development of the Ukrainian Catholic mission in Canada into an ecclesiastical province (metropolia).
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Presentations from the International academic online conference dedicated to the 155th anniversary of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky's birth, 2021
Metropolitan Sheptytsky held conversations with several branches of the Roman Curia and wrote to ... more Metropolitan Sheptytsky held conversations with several branches of the Roman Curia and wrote to every Pope from Leo XIII to Pius XII over a period of 46 years. Correspondence may be found in the Vatican Apostolic Archives, the Archives of the Diplomatic Section of the Secretariat of State, of the Congregations the Eastern Churches, of Catholic Education, of the Doctrine of the Faith and others. ...
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Benedict XV: A Pope in the World of the 'Useless Slaughter' (1914-1918), 2020
Shared with gracious permission of Brepols (granted 14.1.2021)
After centuries of Polish, Russ... more Shared with gracious permission of Brepols (granted 14.1.2021)
After centuries of Polish, Russian, and Austrian rule, at the end of the First World War Ukraine enjoyed a brief independence, but not a day of peace. Until the twentieth century, the papacy’s relations with the stateless Ukrainian people had been ecclesiastical. From the second half of the nineteenth century, as a distinct nation began to manifest itself, the Holy See had to factor Ukraine into its outlook. Pope Benedict XV made a place for Ukraine in his proposals for an ethical peace. His open policy to the fledgling nation was influenced by Greek-Catholic primate, Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, and by Count Michael Tyshkevych, envoy of the Ukrainian National Republic to the Holy See. Attempting to remain “above the parties” during the Polish-Ukrainian War, the pontiff was represented by his envoy in Warsaw, Monsignor Achille Ratti. Criticism of Ratti led him to appoint Father Giovanni Genocchi as Apostolic Visitor to Ukraine, but ongoing war impeded Genocchi from fully carrying out the mission. In 1921, the Pope made several clamorous gestures in support of the besieged Ukrainians, but the Entente imposed a settlement of the victors over the vanquished. When Benedict XV died, in January 1922, condolences arrived at the Holy See declaring that: “Ukrainians have lost a friend and magnanimous protector.”
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Sylvester Sembratovych (1836–1898) has been airbrushed out of history. His name does not appear i... more Sylvester Sembratovych (1836–1898) has been airbrushed out of history. His name does not appear in the index of most Ukrainian histories and his figure receives only marginal reference in the history of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church. Yet, Sylvester was a figure of enormous importance during his lifetime. Not only became leader of the Greek-Catholic Church, he was also one of only six Ruthenian-Ukrainians to have been raised to the cardinatial dignity. And without his pastoral outreach, it is questionable whether that Church would have, already at the dawn of the twentieth century, become a global reality.
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Патріярхат, 2018
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partial English version:
https://annalesecclesiaeucrainae.blogspot.com/2016/11/benedict-xv-in-search-of-peace-for.html
https://annalesecclesiaeucrainae.blogspot.com/2013/12/controversies-over-bishopric-of-halych.html
Papers by Athanasius D . McVay
After centuries of Polish, Russian, and Austrian rule, at the end of the First World War Ukraine enjoyed a brief independence, but not a day of peace. Until the twentieth century, the papacy’s relations with the stateless Ukrainian people had been ecclesiastical. From the second half of the nineteenth century, as a distinct nation began to manifest itself, the Holy See had to factor Ukraine into its outlook. Pope Benedict XV made a place for Ukraine in his proposals for an ethical peace. His open policy to the fledgling nation was influenced by Greek-Catholic primate, Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, and by Count Michael Tyshkevych, envoy of the Ukrainian National Republic to the Holy See. Attempting to remain “above the parties” during the Polish-Ukrainian War, the pontiff was represented by his envoy in Warsaw, Monsignor Achille Ratti. Criticism of Ratti led him to appoint Father Giovanni Genocchi as Apostolic Visitor to Ukraine, but ongoing war impeded Genocchi from fully carrying out the mission. In 1921, the Pope made several clamorous gestures in support of the besieged Ukrainians, but the Entente imposed a settlement of the victors over the vanquished. When Benedict XV died, in January 1922, condolences arrived at the Holy See declaring that: “Ukrainians have lost a friend and magnanimous protector.”
English version: https://annalesecclesiaeucrainae.blogspot.com/2018/06/in-exile-no-longer-holy-family.html
partial English version:
https://annalesecclesiaeucrainae.blogspot.com/2016/11/benedict-xv-in-search-of-peace-for.html
https://annalesecclesiaeucrainae.blogspot.com/2013/12/controversies-over-bishopric-of-halych.html
After centuries of Polish, Russian, and Austrian rule, at the end of the First World War Ukraine enjoyed a brief independence, but not a day of peace. Until the twentieth century, the papacy’s relations with the stateless Ukrainian people had been ecclesiastical. From the second half of the nineteenth century, as a distinct nation began to manifest itself, the Holy See had to factor Ukraine into its outlook. Pope Benedict XV made a place for Ukraine in his proposals for an ethical peace. His open policy to the fledgling nation was influenced by Greek-Catholic primate, Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, and by Count Michael Tyshkevych, envoy of the Ukrainian National Republic to the Holy See. Attempting to remain “above the parties” during the Polish-Ukrainian War, the pontiff was represented by his envoy in Warsaw, Monsignor Achille Ratti. Criticism of Ratti led him to appoint Father Giovanni Genocchi as Apostolic Visitor to Ukraine, but ongoing war impeded Genocchi from fully carrying out the mission. In 1921, the Pope made several clamorous gestures in support of the besieged Ukrainians, but the Entente imposed a settlement of the victors over the vanquished. When Benedict XV died, in January 1922, condolences arrived at the Holy See declaring that: “Ukrainians have lost a friend and magnanimous protector.”
English version: https://annalesecclesiaeucrainae.blogspot.com/2018/06/in-exile-no-longer-holy-family.html
1. Sheptytsky and La Cause de l’Union: from Unionism to proto-Ecumenism
2. Advancing The Cause of the Union
3 Metropolitan Sheptytsky and the Chełm/Kholm region
4 Sheptytsky During the Second World War
5 Unionism and its Discontents
6 A Successor for Sheptytsky’s Cause
Conclusions
Appendices of Documents