Time Stamp sez: We reach our true potential most of society's issues dissolve.

Keep talkin', Time Stamp. You're onto something. There should be a point where denominational differences no longer matter, where even the difference between atheists and believers doesn't matter.

I'm not sure that's beyond mysticism, but maybe that's just a matter of semantics. I think what you're seeking is what mystics seek. And of course what you say is pertinent in a discussion about the Pope. Despite the efforts of some to limit this discussion to what's bad about the Catholic Church (and I will freely admit to those shortcomings), there are those of many faiths and of no faith who seek what is beyond all that divides us.

-Joe-