On this occasion, let us remember what was always most crucial to him, even before the 1978 Conclave. And he himself said this in 1997 at the grave of St. Wojciech in Gniezno and in the presence of the presidents of Poland, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Germany, Slovakia, Ukraine and Hungary who arrived at the Holy Mass in the 1000th anniversary of the death of the patron of Poland and east Europe. And in Homily, our pope repeated his own words, the celebrated cry from the beginning of his pontificate: “CREATE THE DOOR TO CHRIST! In the name of respect for human rights, in the name of freedom, equality, brotherhood, besides in the name of human solidarity and love I cry out: do not be afraid! Open the door to Christ! A man cannot be understood without Christ. Therefore, the wall that rises in hearts today, the wall that divides Europe, will not fall without returning to the Gospel. Without Christ, permanent unity cannot be built. This cannot be done by cutting off from the roots of which the nations and cultures of Europe have grown, and from the large wealth of so many centuries. How can we anticipate to build a “common house” for all of Europe if there are no bricks of human consciences burned in the fire of the Gospel, joined by a binder of solidarity of social love that is the fruit of God’s love? This is the reality which St. Wojciech besides sought and gave his life for specified a future. He besides reminds us present that a fresh order cannot be built without a renewed man, this strongest foundation of all society...”
Unfortunately, in 2014, and especially in 2022, something completely other happened, due to the fact that alternatively of beginning the door to Christ, the gates of hell opened and the devil's divisions entered the ground Ukraine starting a cruel war between nations, so far claiming to be brothers... Oh, my God! Why this inhuman tragedy? due to the fact that – as St. John Paul II warned – you can't build a fresh order without the Renewed Man, and yet the president of Russia was and is simply a man raised in russian Soyuz... Raised in the cult of Stalin, he is his ideological grandson. Russia with specified a leader is not yet fulfilling the prophecy of Fatima, and so it has not truly converted and continues to make its imperial plans. There is, therefore, an escalation of the war against Ukraine, despite the pathetic and seemingly futile attempts to negotiate, due to the fact that Russia does not care for peace and for fair cooperation with the peoples, but is only possessed of the will to incarnate Ukraine (and another territories of the erstwhile USSR) into its empire. In this context, the words of Steve Witkoff, 1 of the naive peace delegates, that Russia does not intend to attack the full of Europe, but merely...her part, sounds unimportant and ridiculous! How do the gracious turn out to be the ruler of the Kremlin wanting only to occupy pars pro toto...? Are you sure? The appetite grows as we eat, as we know, and Russia's borders have for centuries been "liquid" in order not to say cyclical. And the scandal was that Roosevelt recognized the shift of Polish borders after violent and bloody aggression on September 17, 1939, which made it easier for the Soviets to build an empire. Russia even attempted to export the revolution to Spain in 1936-39, and after 1945, almost controlling the UN issued a cold war to the West, which, as on the Korean or Vietnamese peninsula, took the form of an open war. Does the fresh president of the United States not remember that? And today, Russia is in a tight alliance with China and North Korea, including Iran, and in the event of a military victory, it will regulation the remainder of the world. The Allies of Beijing and Pyongyang besides dream of destroying Western democracy. And then the boundaries will be moved like benches in an inn! Wars on the planet multiply at the velocity of sound, from the mediate East to Africa and possibly shortly Asia. The helpless UN is incapable to reconstruct peace, but another plagues (such as the Burma earthquake) will temporarily halt this war machine. .And there is simply a very clear global conflict on the horizon, possibly with atomic weapons. Can humanity handle this? And the empire of evil (and northern Korea) do not cease in these atomic threats. China seems more rational, but how long? The free world, however, is fearful, as usual seeking a prescription for peace. He did not find it in Munich before the Second planet War, and will he have more luck in re-issued Munich? The European Union does not even have an army, and individual European countries – drifting without the US – can they face the red alliance of Moscow, Beijing and Pyongyang, or possibly Tehran? All hope in NATO, but though stronger about Finland and Sweden, does it not abruptly endanger to break up with the US? It is besides unclear that the Turkish Turkey, now facing a political crisis... More questions than answers and many areas of the free planet require a defence against an empire of evil that has late acquired fresh allies.
And as St. John Paul II said in his 1997 message to the presidents of 7 European states: “No country, even the weaker one, can be left behind but the communities that are now forming!” These words besides apply to Ukraine, which for centuries has been like our sister, sometimes sinful erstwhile she forgot the 5th commandment. And wars will cease, and peace in the planet will prevail only erstwhile we open the door to Christ, as St. John Paul II dreamed. The future of our planet so depends on whether mankind will accept the teachings of the Savior. Pope Francis should so more frequently match the homilies of our Karol Wojtyla, the large Gazda from the Vatican.
Marek Baterovich
