Some Roman Catholic clergy have been in USA media lately, such media just "not having time" to air Papal speeches or cite to his catechism, instead deferring to said clergy who likewise "haven't means" of promoting global Catholic network EWTN (which carried complete Papal speeches, live and in repeated encores)...and a lot of cable systems and newspapers don't include EWTN in listings; so you can wind up with "this clergy said this, that clergy said that".
 
Now, relevant media and clergy sometimes appear to take much poetic license, government funded as they are and often having to abide in some places churchgoers are of interest and elsewhere non-churchgoers, with what "the Pope REALLY said". Again, not a judgment, just fact.
 
In any event, in such "coverage" the Pope does not do the talking. This could create impression, insofar as faithful finding means to watch actual speeches, that they may have heard from the original Apostles other than really happened or was said ab initio (by extension, so to all religions)...e.g., for being such a miracle worker and sage, some suggest, Christ sure seems illiterate and perhaps made up, meaning moral authority cannot come Him or any laws enacted by those who believed (even if accomplished laws enacted trump thereto prior contemplations).
 
Suppose, however, that not unlike Benedict XVI, Christ was more the doer/talker type rather than a journalist; then suppose that ala EWTN and Beendict, the Apostles faithfully recorded Christ's words and deeds, with some clergy/media of the time ala the Apochrypha deemed widely to be too self-serving to be of value.
 
Just like Benedict and EWTN, Christ easily could have existed and been truly recorded in His day...despite self-interested detractors of yore. Similarly, look how we believe 232 years ago John Hancock faithfully recorded what England had done to the Colonies, yet we have no direct and timely non-print witness today...relying on folks who had faith in Providence, no less.
 
But that Declaration of Independence later brought forth a separation of Church and State; for the religiously challenged, prior to George III of England, the monarch was both ruler and head of the Church of England; our Founding Fathers appear to just have wanted to be clear whereas religion deserves protection, no GOVERNMENT official(s) should have ex officio influence over or by ANY single religion or combination(s) thereof, and note none of our Founding Fathers ever expressed wish for government funding of any faith(s) despite general respect for Providence itself. (Providence is olde tyme for "heaven".)
 
The USA being also a Republic but a democratically elected one with design a priori officials offer best ways to sanely accomplish betterments a relevant electorate wants, I respectfully submit that it would not be un-American for Congress to seek guidance of Providence if so moved...rather than of any Pope, Imam, Rabbi, or other religious party...and in any event strive to avoid promising far more than could be delivered even if all persons acted to the letter of proposed legislations or budgets.
 
Sidebar re Christians as morons: some also wish to defeat Western if not all religion on grounds early Christian Church prophecy of the Book of Revelations HAS to be purely dreamt up to make speakers thereof princes over us, based on "it hasn't happened YET, has it?". Well, in 1967 famed Roman Catholic William F. Buckley Jr. wrote essays prophesying that giving in to then modernists saying Latin Masses were "too elitist", and no longer requiring knowledge or use of Latin by the diverse laity, would give rise to impression that only slackjawed yokels were interested in Christianity; he was laughed at as "preserving Catholic elitism" against all other faiths, then lo! Earlier this month, Bill Maher said Catholics are possessed of no greater intellects than Nazi hitmen, and Senator Obama opined Christians are largely slackjawed yokels "clinging" to faith in hopes of avoiding "humanly unavoidable" events known only to Obama. It took 41 years for Buckley's prophecy to be proven true; what would a mere 2,000 or more years be for something as epic as the Book Of Revelations? Maybe those lawyers, doctors, and other Founding Fathers weren't so slackjawed themselves.