We ought not pray that God grants us a pope who “doubts” that Catholicism makes manifest the truth of the world and its destiny, for our healing and salvation. We ought not pray for a pope who “doubts” that the name of Jesus “is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in Heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Phil. 2:9–11). We ought not pray for a pope who does not grasp, with St. John Henry Newman, that “ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.”
We ought not pray for a pope who inverts the roles of Thomas and Peter such that Doubting Thomas becomes Doubting Peter.
Doubt is not the passageway to mystery.
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