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The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) has contested the recent Vatican declaration permitting priests to extend "blessings" to same-sex couples, asserting its illegality within the Eastern Catholic Churches.
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Ukraine’s Greek Catholic Church has become the first eastern communion to declare explicitly that the document does not apply outside the Latin church.
The 23 Eastern Catholic Churches all share one Code of Canon Law, separate from that of the Latin Church, Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk explained.