Former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker is the author of this plan, and in a letter to the editor in last week's Wall Street Journal, former Treasury secretaries W. Michael Blumenthal, Nicholas Brady, Paul O'Neill, George Shultz and John Snow lent their support.

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EU's transport commissioner and the erstwhile opponent of one of Sir Michael's political heroes, John Major (he even lent the Conservative leader an aircraft for the recent election).

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In practice, though, belief also has intractable implications for public policy, and the high salience of religious faith in the uncompromising form which John Paul professed has lent a new rancour to the politics of many democracies.

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