Pope Wojtyła expanded the preaching of peace; it was much more developed comparing to the position of the Second Vatican Council. He expressed total opposition to the use of armed fight as a tool for resolving conflicts between countries. Just as he abandoned the absolutism of certain times in which only Catholicism seemed to act as a moral guarantor of the international order. And, it was the Pope who called all religions – starting with the famous World Day of Prayer in Assisi in 1986 – and asked them to return to their original inspiration to be peace makers for people and nations. In conclusion, it would seem that John Paul II always from many “battles” that he had to fight came out defeated. And yet, thinking that through, judging events without prejudice, without ideological barriers from the past, it must be admitted that every time Pope Wojtyła managed to impose a “truth” separate from what kind of dictator or on-duty tycoon (whether a person, organization, or state) wanted to implement or directly force as the only, final one. The Holy Father also managed to demonstrate how the path of history, nevertheless, leads the world to unity. Inevitably. Impossible to stop it.
With the permission of Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz – “At the side of the Saint”
St. Stanislaw BM Publishing House, Krakow 2013
