A.N. Wilson considers what we need from the next pope
St Peter the Apostle by Miguel Vaguer, in the Iglesia El Buen Pastor in Valencia, Spain
photo: Alamy, Jozef Sedmak
Those are my negative thoughts – the pope we do not need is one who wants to navel-gaze about previous generations’ self-created hang-ups.
But now, let us be positive about the pope we do need. Many of us look back at the gathering at Assisi on 27 October 1986 when Pope John Paul II convened an assembly of Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Jews, Buddhists, Jains, Sikhs, Zoroastrians, Shintoists and representatives of Native American and African cults to pray for peace. It was the first of what became annual events, when people of peace came together to pray for peace.
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