Vatican City, 12 April 2014 (VIS) –
“The study of history indeed represents one of the paths for the
impassioned search for the truth, which has always pervaded man's
soul”, said the Pope in his audience with the participants in the
plenary assembly of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences,
which celebrates its 60th anniversary this year. “Your research,
marked both by a genuine passion for the Church and by sincere love
for the truth, can be of great help to those who have the task of
discerning what the Holy Spirit wants to say to today's Church. ...
In your encounter and collaboration with researchers from every
culture and religion, you can offer a specific contribution to the
dialogue between the Church and the contemporary world”.
At the end of the meeting, Pope Francis
commented on one of the initiatives planned by the Committee, the
international conference to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the
First World War, and recalled the prophetic words of Benedict XV in
his letter of August 1917 to the leaders of the warring nations:
“Nothing is lost by peace; everything may be lost by war”.
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