page_title: Stepan Kachala
hierarchical_section_title: Stepan Kachala
caption_attribution_description: Українська: Отець Стефан Качала
context_page_description: Stepan Kachala was a Ukrainian politician and writer.
  Born in Firlejów near Berezhany, he graduated from a gymnasium in Berezhany and then the Lviv seminary. In 1842, he became a Greek-Catholic priest.
  In the late 1860s, a Galician priest, Father Stepan Kachala, made an inquiry into the causes of the Ukrainian peasant’s poverty and then formulated a social program that the Greek Catholic clergy as a whole soon
  adopted for its own. He did not find the roots of the peasant’s poverty where secular investigators have suggested these roots lay: in the
  inequitable terms of emancipation, in the transition to a money economy,
  and in the absence of factory industry to absorb the surplus labor in the countryside. Instead, Father Kalacha found the peasant guilty of vices that led to his impoverishment: drunkenness, prodigality, and sloth. As antidotes to these vices, he suggested, among other things, abstinence, thrift, and enterprise.
  From 1861, Rev Stepan Kachala was a Ukrainian representative to the Galician Sejm, and a head of the Ruthenian Club in the parliament in 1883-1888.
context_section_description: Stepan Kachala (Ukrainian Степан Качала, Polish Stefan Kaczała) (1815 – 1888) was a Ukrainian politician and writer.
  Born in Firlejów near Berezhany, he graduated from a gymnasium in Berezhany and then the Lviv seminary. In 1842, he became a Greek-Catholic priest.
  In the late 1860s, a Galician priest, Father Stepan Kachala, made an inquiry into the causes of the Ukrainian peasant’s poverty and then formulated a social program that the Greek Catholic clergy as a whole soon
  adopted for its own. He did not find the roots of the peasant’s poverty where secular investigators have suggested these roots lay: in the
  inequitable terms of emancipation, in the transition to a money economy,
  and in the absence of factory industry to absorb the surplus labor in the countryside. Instead, Father Kalacha found the peasant guilty of vices that led to his impoverishment: drunkenness, prodigality, and sloth. As antidotes to these vices, he suggested, among other things, abstinence, thrift, and enterprise.
  From 1861, Rev Stepan Kachala was a Ukrainian representative to the Galician Sejm, and a head of the Ruthenian Club (Ukrainian Руськiй клуб, Polish Klub Ruski) in the parliament in 1883-1888.
caption: Stepan Kachala
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