• In January 2009 a certain Greek-Catholic priest appeared in a TV broadcast from Kiev where he said that it is not written anywhere in the Scripture that homosexuality is a deadly sin. This is a lie. The clear statement is in Rom 1:21-28 and a dreadful warning is Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed by fire and brimstone (see Gen 19:1-29 and Jude 7). These moral heresies are founded on the authority of Card. L. Husar who, at variance with the Scripture and Tradition, overtly approves of homosexuality.

If the priest concerned continues to propagate this different gospel, we are obliged to make it public that he falls under the same spiritual punishment as Card. L. Husar.

• The priest of the parish of Pniv (Kolomiya eparchy) was suspended because he had refused to give money to the apostate bishop. He invited us, members of the orthodox Synod, to admit both him and his parish under our jurisdiction. On 8th February 2009 Bishop Teodozij and Bishop Markian OSBM celebrated an episcopal divine liturgy in this parish. Regrettably, the priest later believed the promises of the apostate bishop who released him from suspension and promised him the moon only to make him return under his jurisdiction. Under this cunning pressure the priest abandoned the right way. If he had endured, he would have become an example of courage and of how to disentangle oneself from fear and from the curse impending over the whole eparchy. If he had persevered in faith, within short time the majority of the eparchy and the majority of the UGCC would have liberated themselves from the system which kills the conscience of priests and forces them into sin and even into apostasy, so that they have fear even to overtly confess the faith e.g. in a petition addressed to the Pope.