Pope Benedict XVI third encyclical, Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth), July 2009

Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Animists, etc.

Can a Pope - any Pope - speak to all people? He may try, but it will never work..

Religion speaks to religious people of the same faith. And few religions even try to speak to the rational human...most do to the emotional human...

Thus all analysis is biased with the self reference criteria.

Most credit Adam Smith to be the father of economics...and he was 1st a man of religion, as we know from his other writings. And he evidently did not get it all right in relationship to the equality of income distribution...

But than an other moral code build on Confucius did not get it all balanced either. And here the 3 big monotheistic religions are not part of the underlaying structure...no religion really is relevant here.

Thus I - until a rational word religion is born - think we should listen to the old wisdom: to God what is God's - to Caesar what is Cesar's. Mixing does no one good - it did not in the past nor does it now...and the future is ...future.