OGDENSBURG — Three Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart from the Diocese of Ogdensburg are celebrating jubilees this year, totaling 210 years of service. This year also marks the 100th
People hold a banner reading Pray For Myanmar, Grazie in St. Peter s Square as they wait for Pope Francis to lead the Regina Coeli at the Vatican April 25, 2021. (CNS photo/Remo Casilli, Reuters)
Pope Francis brought consolation and hope to Catholics and countless people of other religions in Myanmar when he celebrated Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica this Sunday morning for peace in their troubled homeland, which was robbed of democracy by a military coup on Feb. 1.
More than 170 women religious, priests, seminarians and laypeople from Myanmar who are living in Rome and other parts of Italy joined him for the eucharistic celebration. Young women religious from that country read the Scriptures, prayers of the faithful and the responsorial psalm in Burmese. Francis was deeply moved, and this came through also when he delivered his homily, which he addressed not only to those present but also to the some 750,000 Catholics, as well as other Christians and the followers of different