Once I was a clever boy learning the arts of Oxford... is a quotation from the verses written by Bishop Richard Fleming (c.1385-1431) for his tomb in Lincoln Cathedral. Fleming, the founder of Lincoln College in Oxford, is the subject of my research for a D. Phil., and, like me, a son of the West Riding. I have remarked in the past that I have a deeply meaningful on-going relationship with a dead fifteenth century bishop... it was Fleming who, in effect, enabled me to come to Oxford and to learn its arts, and for that I am immensely grateful.


Thursday 3 March 2022

Cardinal Slipyj and the Ukraine


Faced with the horrors being inflicted on the people of the Ukraine one feels deep sympathy and a somewhat impotent solidarity with them under such wanton aggression. This is undoubtedly a situation that requires our prayer and spiritual support. 

That underlies an article on Rorate Caeli about the heroic life and ministry of Cardinal Slipyj which can be read at In honor of Ukraine and of Cardinal Josyf Slipyj, at the 130th anniversary of his birth (1892-2022) — by Roberto de Mattei 

To help understand something of the background to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and the cultural background to the life of the Cardinal and to the ecclesial history of what is now the western Ukraine the illustrated Wikipedia article about its main city which can be read at Lviv - is otherwise Lwow, Lemberg or Lvov -  worth perusing as it has many useful links.

Pray for the Ukraine, its people and independence.


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