We explore the latent response of religion and philosophy to the global economic arena at http://www.therationale.com/ and now have dedicated a site to the review of Pope’s Benedict’s - Charity is truth - economic and ethics encyclical at http://tapsearch.com/pope-bene…..encyclical. It will take time to apply it to the global economic crisis and there is an urgent need for a clarification of what the Pope means by - an urgent need for a new world authority - in the frame of reference to his call for “subsidiarity” - which means all things should be decided at the lowest level possible. We need a clarification since the elder President Bush announced the ” new world order ” and experts years ago predicted the economic crisis in the “bewildered new world”.

October 10

Jesus says:

“If to fear the Lord is wisdom and to flee from evil is intelligence, what can the loving Lord with all the powers of being be? It must be the perfection of wisdom and intelligence, for love is what refines the powers of the spirit to such elevation that it consequently leads to perfection in every field.

“Those who love have known true wisdom in a measure which cannot be increased because it is perfect. Love instructs them to understand and leads them to obey; love preserves them from evil; love makes them fly along the way of Goodness. Love, the holy love which God has wanted as his main attribute–God is love–is the science of science because it makes you masters in the science which gives Life: the science of knowing God.

“Those who love possess true intelligence. God does not divide Himself from those who love Him. Now, if God is in you, you possess Intelligence itself in yourselves, and it communicates its lights to you, just as a flame enclosed in a crystal shines through and warms the outside.

“And God is a flame living in you when you love Him. Your human nature is deified by contact. Man, an animal endowed with reason, falls like a butterfly’s chrysalis and is succeeded by the true superman, who is not as the world thinks: a poor proud being full of errors and haughtiness, but a being who, not yet an angel and no longer man, shares with man the struggles which yield merit and by which Truth is unveiled and God appears–as Father and Lord–in his superessential Beauty.

“Blessed are those who Love God. Seven times blessed, because their love is the compendum of all the mystical hungers and thirsts, of all the virtues, of all things, and it obtains for them the reward promised to those named in the Sermon on the Mount. Blessed are they because, beginning on earth, they see and enjoy God, a foretaste of the enrapturing, eternal vision, which will be their future life and awaits them in Heaven.

Peace be with you always