Source: Crux Cindy Wooden CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE ROME – The last group of U.S. bishops to make their “ad limina” visits to Rome chose to celebrate the final liturgy of their visit at Rome’s Basilica of St. Clement because of its ties to the Christian East. Under a sparkling 12th-century mosaic depicting the church as a vine growing from Christ’s cross, Archbishop Borys Gudziak of the Ukrainian Archeparchy of Philadelphia presided over the Divine Liturgy Feb. 21. Bishops from the other U.S. Ukrainian eparchies concelebrated as did bishops from the Ruthenian, Maronite, Melkite, Syriac, Syro-Malabar, Armenian and Romanian Catholic churches.…
Bishop Paul P. Chomnycky of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Stamford, Conn., and Bishop Bohdan J. Danylo of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saint Josaphat in Parma, Ohio, arrive in procession with bishops of the Eastern Catholic churches in the United States to concelebrate a Divine Liturgy at the Basilica of St. Clement in Rome Feb. 21, 2020. The bishops were making their "ad limina" visits to the Vatican. (Credit: Paul Haring/CNS.)