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9 U. St. Thomas J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 94 (2014-2015)
Pro Deo et Patria: The Greek Catholic Church and Ukrainian National Life - Past and Present

handle is hein.journals/tjlpp9 and id is 100 raw text is: PRO DEo ET PATRIA: THE GREEK CATHOLIC CHURCH AND UKRAINIAN NATIONAL LIFE - PAST AND PRESENT BRETT R. MCCAW' In the early months of 2014, global attention turned to the streets of Kyiv as the most pressing crisis in post-Soviet Ukraine unraveled in the course of weeks. What originated as an incidental political protest against president Viktor Yanukovych's last minute reneging of a long-awaited European Association agreement, soon developed into a mass movement on Kyiv's Independence Square (Maidan Nezalezhnosti) with ramifications for the entire country. As tensions escalated between protestors and riot police, stirring images of Ukrainian priests in the midst of such confrontations offered Western audiences a noteworthy paradox of the formerly atheistic Soviet republic's strikingly religious civil society. Once considered as the USSR's equivalent 'Bible Belt,2 Ukraine is one of the most religiously pluralistic, if at times confusing, countries in Europe. Though predominated by Eastern Orthodoxy, of which there are three different churches (Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate UOC-MP, Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyiv Patriarchate UOC-KP, and Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church UAOC); Ukraine also has sizable Protestant and Catholic minorities. Yet among the most remarkable and dynamic of religious institutions in post-Soviet Ukraine, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) maintains a pride of place. As an institution that lies on Christendom's traditional fault line between 1. Brett R. McCaw is a freelance scholar and writer with a BA in Philosophy and Catholic Studies (University of St. Thomas) and a MA in International Politics (Marquette University). McCaw has taught in Ukraine and worked in the country's NGO sector for several years and was present on Kyiv's Euromaidan in January and May of 2014 as a journalist to observe events. *Special thanks to the personnel of the Ukrainian National Museum in Chicago (IL) -especially to curator Ms. Maria Klimchak for her generous help to me in navigating the museum's archives. Special thanks also to Ms. Nelia Martsinkiv, a talented Ukrainian historian and doctoral student at the University of Notre Dame, who assisted in questions relating to my Ukrainian translations as well as historical clarifications. 2. SERHII PLOKHY, THE LAST EMPIRE: THE FINAL DAYS OF THE SOVIET UNION 286 (2014). 94

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