Key moments during Francis’ trip are his Mass for the largely Hungarian-speaking Roman Catholic faithful at the country’s most famous Marian shrine, Sumuleu Ciuc, in eastern Transylvania. Francis was also meeting Friday with the leadership of the Romanian Orthodox Church in the latest of his foreign trips to poor countries where Catholics are a minority. “I’m coming to you to walk together,” Francis said in a video released on the eve of his trip. John Paul agreed to Orthodox demands that he visit only Bucharest and not Transylvania, where most of the country’s Catholics live. This visit should make us become better Catholics and better Orthodox and in the end, better citizens.”——Winfield reported from Rome.

Source: National Post May 31, 2019 04:48 UTC