"...we Ukrainian Catholics...."

Quite right, Alexandra1. Vatican II's "Decree on Eastern Catholic Churches" (Orientalium Ecclesiarum, Lat.) acknowledges that the Eastern Catholic communities are true Churches -- all 23 Churches -- and not just "rites" in the Catholic Church. "To be Catholic," notes theologian Richard O'Brien, "is to be in full communion with the Bishop of Rome and as such an integral part of the Catholic Communion of [24] Churches," of which the Ukrainian Catholic Church is a component and integral part.