A group of Critics claim that the SSJK's liturgical practice favours severely abbreviated services and imported Catholic devotions over the traditional and authentic practices of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. Proponents counter that these symbols and rituals, influenced long ago by their Polish Latin Catholic neighbors, have been practiced by Ukrainian Greek Catholics for centuries. their claim is To deny them today is to deprive the people of a part of sacred heritage which they have learned to regard as their own. However the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church still retains officially these practices even nowadays and have claimed that the critics have falsely accused them.