Pope Francis warned of ideological attempts to sow fear or division in society today (June 2, 2019), as he paid tribute to Christians in Romania killed or persecuted under communism, according to the Euro News website.
After World War II, Romanian authorities confiscated property from the Eastern Rite Catholic Church and forced its members to join the larger Orthodox Church.
In his homily today, Francis paid tribute to an estimated half-million Romanians jailed in the 1950s and 1960s including politicians, priests, and doctors.
Many Catholic properties taken by the communist dictatorship or given by the government to the Orthodox Church have yet to be returned 30 years after the fall of communism.
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