Przyczyny i skutki wojen: nauka Soboru watykańskiego II, Pawła VI oraz Jana Pawła II
Causes and Effects of Wars: the teachings of the Second Vatican Council, Paul VI and John Paul II

Summary/Abstract: This article is an attempt to respond in media emerging issues related to the threat of war. The lack of anaudible voice of the Church teaching through the documents of the SecondVatican Council and the teaching of the Holy Father Paul VI and John Paul II in the Messages for World Peace Day create a situation of media chaos and the inaccessibility of knowing thecauses of the emerging worldwars and their consequences. The listed and signaled premises in the form of political conflicts, national egoism tightened to one’s own interests, dictatorship, structural war of the state or the arms race and other presented sources of evil give rise to the war. The causes of violence always arise in the human heart. This situation exists from the biblical times of Cain wishing to reign and overcome. Therefore, every war is the result of the consequences of sin and the loss of God’s image in the heart of man. The church sensitive to spiritual matters would like to remind of the rebirth in the education of young generations of love, sensitivity to justice, goodness and shaping the hearts of people. If there is no order in the heart of man, then there will never be order in the consciences of nations. The people not only die during the war, but during it is deprived of honor and dignity, demoralized, lied and robbed. The church opposes all struggle against life because it is an offense to human dignity. It is noticeable that the war is still ongoing in the modern world in the form of nuclear deterrence, economic robbery of poorer countries and a lack of help for weaker countries. Freshtraces of the devastating effects of the war remained in Sarajewo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Middle East and the African continent. Church teaching instructs state leaders to respectevery human dignity, build world peace, and disarm human hearts from hatred and violence. This can be done by bringing young people to peace, shaping the moral order in the hearts of young people, as well as by living in respect and forgiving other people.

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