CROATIAN BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE, Letter on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the End of the Second World War (1 May 1995)
The chief weight of the question is not how to mourn the victims of your own community and how to recognize the guilty among another community. Croats and Serbs, Catholics and Orthodox, muslims and others confront a serious moral question: How to mourn the victims of another community, how to admit guilt in one’s own community? And then: How to repent for a crime, how to obtain the forgiveness of God and man, good conscience and reconciliation among people and nations? How to begin a new era based on justice and truth?