International Congress on the 100th Anniversary of the First World War
Thursday, October 16, 2014The Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences is holding, from October 15 to 17, 2014, in Rome, an International Congress on the theme “Useless Slaughter: Catholics and the Holy See in the First World War”. Organized in collaboration with the Hungarian Academy in Rome and the Commission Internationale d’histoire et d’études du christianisme, the congress is offering “the opportunity to review the historiography with particular attention to the commitment of Catholics and the Holy See in the conflict.”