Ukrainian Catholic Patriarch responds to accusation that he is liberal on homosexuality
The Patriarch of the Ukrainian Catholic Church rebuffed the notion that he is a theological liberal on the subject of homosexuality – and then some – saying that the “sin of homosexuality is comparable to that of murder.” Patriarch Sviatoslav Shevchuk Video footage of an exchange between Patriarch Sviatoslav Shevchuk and a Ukrainian journalist was released more than one year ago, but an English transcript has recently been funished to LifeSiteNews.com. “Some call you the most liberal head of the Ukrainian Church and that your views on homosexuality are very tolerant,” the journalist asked, in Russian. “Do you believe they should, at minimum, have the right to civil unions and, at maximum, to marriages in the Ukrainian Church?” The Patriarch declined to classify his views as liberal or conservative but responded, in Ukrainian, “In accordance with the teaching of the Church, homosexual behavior is a grave sin, which calls to Heaven for vengeance.” The designation of