Hi Centroamerica
I agree, that is certainly a problem. I knew about this and I wondered why they would promote this when their benefactors, the SSPX, were strongly against this false devotion (I’m not sure now?). It’s unfortunately a “devotion” among most Ukrainian Catholics in western Ukraine (be they Society of St. Josaphat or not). But that still doesn’t take away from the fact that “most” in the Ukrainian hierarchy have embraced the errors of Vatican II.
I agree it’s a case by case basis for choosing where to attend Holy Mass/Divine Liturgy . But from what I’ve seen in Eastern Europe, they (Society of St. Josaphat) are certainly the safest course. The danger of recognizing such men as JPII or Francis as one’s proximate rule of Faith is wreaking havoc in the Eastern Rites and I think the only reason that they have left the Divine Liturgy relatively unchanged (unlike the Novus Ordo) is an eventual schism to “Orthodoxy”. Many Ukrainian theologians are already discussing a “dual form” of Communion between Rome and Constantinople and Met. Shevchuk has at least hinted that this is the direction that the UGCC is headed. Many others have explicitly endorsed this above model.
There was an article on Rorate Caeli a few years back (click
here) but I can give you more recent references if you like.