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It took centuries to define and set up the appropriate constitutional relationship between the State and the Church. The process was so long because politics and religion are linked and separate at the same time and both aspire to capture that totality of the person. They must be kept apart because they have to do with as fundamentally different aspects of human experience as power and faith and when the two contaminate each other both deprave. Political and economic activity too are linked and separate at the same time. They too are corrupted by contamination, but

need to relate to each other. Power and wealth are two fundamentally different categories, and yet each may determine the fate of the other. The present crisis is not only a powerful reminder that the relationship between markets and governments is still largely unsettled, it is alto an event that may disrupt economic prosperity and democratic freedoms.