Tireless thinker who offered world's masses love and hope.
EACH morning, when his health allowed him, Pope John Paul II would wake
to watch the dawn. “I like to watch the sun rise,” he told friends.
This week, as night prepared to envelop him and his 26-year
pontificate, it was worth recalling that he saw his role, like that of
the sun, as “a witness to hope”. … [The Scotsman]