When they were working together some years ago at the Ukrainian Catholic University — the only Catholic institution of higher learning in the former Soviet space — Father Borys Gudziak and Father Sviatoslav Shevchuk did not imagine themselves occupying their present positions. Nor could they imagine that they would be at the center of epic historical events in 2022-2023, defending order and decency in world politics amidst a brutal war. In that wholly unanticipated circumstance, however, and from their current positions of responsibility in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Major-Archbishop Shevchuk (the UGCC’s head) and Archbishop Gudziak (the archeparch of Philadelphia for Ukrainian Greek Catholics) have borne a powerful global witness to the truths of Catholic faith amidst a moral monster’s genocidal assault on the people of Ukraine.
When I first met Borys Gudziak at the home of mutual friends during a post-christening reception, he was a doctoral student at Harvard. And I hadn’t the faintest idea that I would eventually pass the dissertation he was writing (which had subsequently become an important book) to John Paul II over the papal dinner table. But on that Sunday afternoon in the mid-1980s, I did have the sense that this was someone with whom I would be in conversation for the rest of my life — and so it has been.
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Al final de su más reciente novela, su decimoquinta («Victory City», la ciudad de la victoria), el muy perseguido y amenazado escritor británico de origen indio, Salman Rushdie, a través de un personaje afirma con convicción: «mientras los regímenes caen, las historias sobreviven. Las palabras son las vencedoras».
They went to the extreme of conspiring against the acting President, to whom they owed allegiance according to the country's Constitution, promoting investigations without cause and leaking false information that the media spread without revealing the sources, taking refuge in an ethical "privacy rule".