On the Road to Kiev....
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I'm guessing they got the permission to do so from London but, strangely enough, no one told me until now. Hmm.
So if you're interested, read up and enjoy.
The cardinal -- major-archbishop of Kiev and head of the 5.5-million member church, which has been in communion with Rome since 1698 -- gave a wonderful interview, if only there were enough space in print to do it justice. I routinely write long (i.e. over the space alloted) for my print commitments as a matter of habit (which is a nice way of saying "I don't know when to shut up") and this one was especially difficult to cut because Husar just said so many good and uplifting things -- in spite of my subpar questions, no less.
However, I must confess that my favorite line of his was edited out in the paper's final draft. This happens, of course, but as soon as I heard it leave his lips, it immediately struck me as a very keen insight.
As the Synod of the Ukrainian church is given a degree of latitude in recommending and appointing bishops for its faithful, we were speaking of episcopal appointments when Husar let this stream of thought loose:
“You know, when the moment arrives, to sit down and look and say, ‘Who? Who could be capable to do it? Who is the right candidate?’ – I think that’s not enough.... I think we sometimes, even in our speech, when we say ‘The Holy Spirit has chosen him,’ I think it’s a light way of talking. I think the Holy Spirit does not excuse us from doing our work, but cooperates, blesses, sanctifies, inspires us to do our work.”
I love that line so much my jaw almost dropped.
Hope everyone enjoys the final work-product. And, if you'd like to see more of that -- and all the goodness of The World's Best Catholic Paper -- it's not a bad idea to susbscribe....
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