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SAINTE-ADELE, Quebec - Western secularism underlies the worldwide economic crisis and challenges the future of Ukraine, the head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church told Canada's bishops.  

“The current economic crisis is merely the symptom of a much deeper spiritual and cultural crisis,” Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk told the annual plenary of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops Sept. 25. “As Western society rejects old moral structures and values, it finds that its moral GPS has no fixed and stationary points of reference.”

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