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An article of what is happening in Ukraine today.
FR. BORYS GUDZIAK IN AUSTRALIA
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Ukrainian Catholic Church, once the world's largest underground Church, came from out of the catacombs. Viciously persecuted for a period of nearly half a century, one of the first initiatives of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, was to make the near century long dream of building the first Eastern Catholic University a reality. Built on the spiritual foundations of its predecessor, the Lviv Theological Academy, the Ukrainian Catholic University has in a short period of time established itself as not only the first Catholic University on post-Soviet soil, but also an academic institution of excellence and spiritual authenticity, applauded by the international press such as the Daily Telegraph of London, and The Economist, as potentially a significant player in European higher education.
With its astonishing growth and reputation, the Ukrainian Catholic University has also attracted for itself a stiff opposition from the ghosts of the old Soviet regime, who see in the Ukrainian Catholic University a threat to plans to rewind the political dynamic of far Eastern Europe. Fr. Borys Gudziak will speak not only about the work of the Ukrainian Catholic University in post-Soviet Ukraine, but on the broader theme of the place of Christian Spirituality in a post-Modern world.
About Fr. Borys Gudziak
Fr. Borys Gudziak, is the Rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University - a mantle he takes from the legacy of martyrdom and scholarship left behind by the Lviv Theological Academy, and its original staff and students, including its famed first Rector - Josyf Slipyj, the inspiration behind Morris West's, The Shoes of the Fisherman.
Born in Syracuse, New York in 1960, Fr, Borys was educated at Syracuse University (BSc, Summa cum laude); the Pontifical University (S.T.B,, Magna cum laude}; Harvard University (Phd); and the Pontifical Oriental University in Rome. He has been a member of staff at Harvard University, the University of St. Paul Ottawa, the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome and the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago.
A polyglot, Fr. Borys speaks ten European languages, and has a record of publications not only extensive in number, but broad in the languages he chooses to convey his Christian message.
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