European bishops recall WWI dead, vow recovery of Europe's spiritual heritage
November 12, 2014
After a pilgrimage to Verdun to commemorate the deaths of World War I, the Commission of Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community (COMECE) has issued a statement affirming “our commitment to assist Europe recover the gospel roots of its identity, to appreciate anew the values – many of them profoundly Christian – which bind her as a community, and to promote a future for all Europe’s citizens and for the wider world where peace and justice reign.”
The COMECE statement—released by Cardinal Reinhard Marx, the president of the group—said that the pilgrimage helped the participating bishops “to take spiritual stock as we look back over a century when light and darkness have wrestled in Europe as at no other period in her long, eventful and often tragic past.”
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