At a Marian shrine in the heart of Transylvania, Pope Francis has called on Romania's Catholics to leave resentments behind and to embark on a journey of unity.
Celebrating Mass on June 1 at the Sumuleu Ciuc shrine, an important place of pilgrimage for Romanians and for Catholics from across the border in Hungary, the Pope called on the faithful to ask God "for the grace to change past and present resentments and mistrust into new opportunities for friendship."
"Complicated and sorrow-filled situations from the past must not be forgotten or denied, yet neither must they be an obstacle or an excuse standing in the way of our desire to live together as brothers and sisters," he said.
