Soon after posting about the centenary of the beginning of the Battle of Verdun, I remembered a reflection I had written that recently appeared in the MAGNIFICAT Lenten Companion. The film footage described below was not from Verdun, but from another stretch of the Western front.
Still, it makes for an appropriate followup as we try to put war in perspective:
Still, it makes for an appropriate followup as we try to put war in perspective:
