POPE Benedict XVI today read what he described as a message of love and hope that Pope John Paul II had intended to deliver the day after he died. "In the divine plan it was written that he should leave us right on the vigil," Benedict said during a visit to the God Our Merciful Father Church on the outskirts of Rome. "The pope had written thus: 'To humanity, which sometimes appears lost and dominated by the power of evil and selfishness and fear, the Lord resurrected offers the gift of his love that forgives, reconciles and opens the soul...