Bilky: In a deeply moving ceremony on the morning of September 27, the Byzantine Rite priest Pietro Paolo Oros was officially beatified in Bilky, Ukraine, nearly 72 years after his martyrdom under the communist regime. Killed in 1953 at the age of just 36, Oros was recognized as a witness to faith, charity, and unity, whose life and death continue to inspire the faithful in a world riven by divisions and conflict.

Representing Pope Leo XIV at the beatification, Cardinal Grzegorz Ryś, Archbishop of Łódź, described the new Blessed as a “bridge” in a fractured world. “In today’s world, torn apart by terrible wars, more divided than ever before, where people have lost the ability to truly meet one another and suffer from deep loneliness, we need people of genuine encounter and communion, li

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