Quotable notes

Following is an excerpt from a February 23 article in The New York Times, "New Cardinal in a Clash of Creeds," by Alessandra Stanley.

Cardinal Husar, who turns 68 next week, said he wanted the Russian Orthodox Church and the Vatican to realize that Greek-Catholics belong to "a genuine Eastern Church, and not a Latinized version." ...

Cardinal Husar is already lobbying Rome to allow him to take the Eastern title of "patriarch," rather than the Vatican appellation of "major archbishop." He explained that it would help his dialogue with Orthodox leaders if "we could be partners on an equal footing."

The Vatican has so far resisted, fearful of further offending the Orthodox Church. "We are trying to persuade the Holy See that their reasoning is not so good, it has achieved no concrete results, and it has put us into a questionable position," he said.

... Cardinal Husar, along with the newly elevated Roman Catholic Cardinal Marian Jaworski, 74, archbishop of Lviv, will organize the pope's visit [to Ukraine]. But Cardinal Husar made it clear that he did not want to make compromises to ease Vatican diplomacy with Patriarch Aleksei of Russia. "We are not looking at the pope's visit as a dress rehearsal for Moscow," he said. "It is a visit to Ukraine."

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, March 18, 2001, No. 11, Vol. LXIX

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