Pope Benedict XVI told a Mass in England Sunday the world felt “shame and horror” at suffering inflicted by his German homeland in World War- II and recalled a key air battle that saved Britain from invasion. In his sermon, on the last day of a four-day visit, before a crowd of more than 50,000 people attending the open-air mass, he spoke first of the war. On Sunday Britain commemorated the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. “For me as one who lived and suffered through the dark days of the Nazi regime in Germany, it is deeply moving to be here with you on this occasion, and to recall how many of your fellow citizens sacrificed their lives, courageously resisting the forces of that evil ideology,” he said. “Seventy years later, we recall with shame and horror the dreadful toll of death and destruction that war brings in its wake, and we renew our resolve to work for peace and reconciliation wherever the threat of conflict looms,” he said.
