RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY :
It is said that throughout the whole length of civilisation and up to date, more blood has been shed and more life killed than it was in wars, all put together. While spirituality is mostly the evolution of soul God-ward or with monistic belief of unitary existence ( even atheists are often more spiritual than decorated religious figures), Religion is mostly a carry forward of ethnics-cultural habits and local capacities of community faith and regional belief. Interesting to note that even ISLAM is an off-shoot of Judo-Cristian faith developing over time'.
For the pope to cast aspersion on any other sibling -religion is sometimes a bit of overtone and one-eyed observation
The Catholic Lords ,themselves should re-inspect their own records of the nature of their treatment and remarks meted out to the then scientific giants e.g. BRUNO.. COPERNICUS. GALILEO and all others . So, ignorance and blind observations is not the sole property of a single religion. ALL religions are God-searching and also, all religions gather `darts and moss, over time and are also the victims of Entropy and survival principle.
If there is not One God for the whole Cosmos, then, I do not need that God for my liberation.