Patriarch Lubomyr "The Road to Oneself" audio project completed

KYIV (RISU) — A set of three CDs containing interviews with Patriarch Lubomyr Husar, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), his first audio project, was presented in Kyiv on 10 January 2009.

Power and riches, the Church and youth, immigration and attitudes toward foreigners, journalists and businessmen, morality in political and public life… Talks on these and other themes of Patriarch Lubomyr can now be heard on three compact disks with the general name "The road to oneself." This is the first audio project of the head of UGCC, who, using modern technology, has the opportunity to offer listeners his reflections on important social and religious themes.

"Not that money is without reservation evil, but its use. Not many, unfortunately, can be rich... Riches are dangerous. The one who can manage himself with that danger can do great and good deeds..." So the patriarch said talking about business, money and enterprise. "If a teacher, even at a middle school... takes a bribe from a schoolboy, can this schoolboy grow up to be an honest man?... Here a teacher does a frightful injustice to his schoolboys. In my opinion, this is the worst form of bribery, because it is shattering..." So the patriarch said reflecting on bribery.

All the material offered on the disks is given in the genre of interview. Conversing with Patriarch Lubomyr were:

Yevhen Hlibovytskyi, director of a consulting company on strategic communications, pro.mova, previously a journalist who worked in leading newspapers and on TV channels, coauthor of the conceptual plan of Channel 5, one of the leaders of campaigns for the defense of freedom of speech and the fight against censorship, a member of the Informational Council for the Head of UGCC.

Dmytro Simanskyi (Krykun), a journalist, expert on communication, media trainer, member of the National Commission on Guaranteeing Freedom of Speech and Developing the Informational Industry for the President of Ukraine and the Informational Council for the Head of the UGCC.

An introductory word was said by Myroslav Marynovych, vice-rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University, dissident, long-term prisoner of Soviet concentration camps, writer. The closing speech was given by Bishop Bohdan (Dzyurakh), secretary of the Synod of Bishops of the UGCC, auxiliary bishop of the Kyiv Archeparchy. The money earned from sales of the compact disk will be used for the construction of the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ of the UGCC in Kyiv.