Special restrictions applying to members of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

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That brings me back to another question I posted on Catholic Answers, where I asked about the special restrictions applying to members of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church when it comes to discussing Catholic doctrine and morals using the media of social communication. Before I learned about that special rule of the UGCC canon law, I posted extensively on a secular Web site to defend the Church and her teachings against various unfair criticisms and sarcastic comments, complete with quotes to Papal encyclicals and disquisitions on Church history. I also wrote a book with extensive Catholic themes. Then I discovered that I might need my bishop’s permission before acting like this (perhaps they fear that self-appointed spokespeople may do the UGCC more harm than good - it’s a matter of the UGCC’s own particular canons, which are stricter (I think) than in the Roman Catholic or other parts of the Church.
 
interesting, but your conclusion makes sense

how many Catholics end up putting the Church in a bad light because of poor apologetics or catechisis going to message boards and debating with other self-appointed apologists of other sects and faiths. or sometimes legit apologists

here in CAF you’re bound to get a right answer by the sheer number of Catholics here. so even if a couple may give some wrong information, they are immediately corrected. but the same is not true on other message boards where there may be a few Catholics
 
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That brings me back to another question I posted on Catholic Answers, where I asked about the special restrictions applying to members of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church when it comes to discussing Catholic doctrine and morals using the media of social communication. Before I learned about that special rule of the UGCC canon law, I posted extensively on a secular Web site to defend the Church and her teachings against various unfair criticisms and sarcastic comments, complete with quotes to Papal encyclicals and disquisitions on Church history. I also wrote a book with extensive Catholic themes. Then I discovered that I might need my bishop’s permission before acting like this (perhaps they fear that self-appointed spokespeople may do the UGCC more harm than good - it’s a matter of the UGCC’s own particular canons, which are stricter (I think) than in the Roman Catholic or other parts of the Church.
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Hello. I have never heard of such restriction I guess. If you go to the Ukrainian Catholic Church site in Ukraine, you will find they have a discussion board for regular lay people and priests, and allow non-Catholics to post and ask questions as well, just like CAF. see here forum.ugcc.org.ua/

If it’s O.K. there with Cardinal Husar’s approval, why should it be disallowed here? 🙂

p.s. plus there is an Eastern Catholic subforum here on CAF and it could use more Ukrainian Catholics I believe as there are lots of comments and questions. 🙂
 
Maybe I have been using the wrong documents.

Can anybody show me an authentic link to the Canons of the Particular Law of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church?

There is a documents purporting to be the Canons of the Particular Law of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church - it is posted on what purports to be the Web page of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Winnipeg, Canada:

www.archeparchy.ca/documents/Particular_Law_Canons.pdf

Maybe these rules apply to Canada only? Maybe they’re simply a misprint? Maybe they’ve been superseded (at least in the United States)?

This is important to me personally as someone who has worried about when he needs his Bishop’s permission. Someone at my bishop’s office claims never to have heard of Canon 77, which is what has been giving me particular heartburn:

"Participation of the Faithful in areas of Social Communication

“Can. 77 (CCEO c. 653) Sacred ministers and also other faithful, who habitually, temporarily or occasionally make use of the instruments of social communication explaining that, which deals with Catholic doctrine or morals, are obligated to receive written permission from the eparchial bishop. It is for the metropolitan or eparchial bishop to establish more detailed norms.”

Also, I have cited these alleged particular canons when begging my professor to give me the morning off to attend church on Sunday and a holy day.

Have I been using inoperative documents all this time?
 
I believe those are the particular law for the UGCC Archeparchy of Winnepeg. (Which is the metropolitan see for the UGCC in Canada).

The Archeparchy of Philadelphia has no hits for “particular law” on their website (ukrarcheparchy.us)
 
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