Scott Appleby in Foreign Policy (January/February 2004), 58-63.

In writing a job description for the next pope, Appleby contends that the best successor to John Paul II should embrace science, reject globalization, reach out to the Islamic world – and brush up on economics. He says that challenges faced by the next pope will include a new and aggressive secularization, plus the advent of genetic engineering and related forms of biotechnology. As for Islam, the Vatican cannot ignore the fierce internal contest going on within that great world religion “that is both the Church’s main rival for adherents and its potential ally against a purely materialistic concept of human development.”

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