text: The Prosperity Gospel nonsense is heretical and a complete misreading of the Gospels and Christianity.  We should really call it what it is.
  
  And the last two popes were complicit in at least giving aid and comfort to the alliance between the EWTN Catholics and Evangelical Protestants.  JPII and Benedict may not have shared the views of conservative American Christians but they spent most of their time chastising the left and rarely critiqued the right.  Why didn't Benedict, who wrote Caritas en Veritae, do more to criticize this Prosperity Gospel nonsense?  It seems like JPII and Benedict shared the same siege mentality as the American Christian right and that unfortunately blinded them to the sins and heresies of the right.  Francis doesn't see Christianity at war with the modern world, but in dialogue with it.  This is why he is comfortable calling out the sins of the right as much as he is those of the left.