Vatican News Exalts Schismatic Kyiv Lavra as Spiritual Heart of Ukraine
Vatican News portal (July 7, 2026) publishes an interview with Ukrainian historian Dmytro Hordienko, Scientific Director of the National Sanctuary Complex of Saint Sophia of Kyiv, extolling the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra as “one of the great centers of Ukrainian spirituality—not only for the Church, but for the entire nation.” The article traces the monastery’s origins from Saints Anthony and Theodosius, its cultural role through the Primary Chronicle and iconography, its subjugation under Moscow, Soviet persecution, and recent damage from a Russian missile strike. The conciliar sect’s mouthpiece thus presents a schismatic Orthodox monastery as a legitimate spiritual beacon, implicitly endorsing the ecumenical delusion that the Church of Christ subsists in separated communions. This propaganda piece exposes the neo-church’s definitive abandonment of the extra Ecclesiam nulla salus dogma in favor of a naturalistic cult of cultural heritage.