I am not Catholic and don't have much to think or say about the Pope. But one of my favorite songs from the 80s is by the incomparable Steve Taylor, written on the occasion of the Pope's visiting in prison the man who tried to kill him.
The first verse went:
I saw a man He was holding the hand That had fired a gun at his heart Oh, will we live To forgive?And that's how I am going to remember John Paul II.
I saw the eyes And the look of surprise As he left an indelible mark Oh, will we live To forgive?
