My final audience with Pope John Paul was a moving one. It was in 2003, just two years before he died. He was in a wheelchair. The Archbishop of Liverpool, Patrick Kelly, was with me, and we decided to speak Italian as we knew it would be easier for him. I asked him when he was going to beatify Cardinal John Henry Newman, and he told me that we needed a miracle. I explained that the English were not very good at miracles – we did not like to “bully” God, I explained, as the Italians did. He smiled. Then I told him that I had been to see Padre Pio when I was a student in Rome. His face lit up. “Me, too,” he said, “I also went to see him in my student days.” We then spoke a little about holiness, the desire of every Christian heart. I am glad that a