Hypocrisy

Pope Cautions Anglican Leader on Gays

"Pope John Paul II told the archbishop of Canterbury on Saturday that the acceptance of openly gay clergy members by many Anglicans presented "new and serious difficulties" in relations between the two churches."

First of all, the relationship between the Catholic and the Anglican communions has been pretty clear since the time of Henry VIII.

Secondly, the Pope should look to his own house. It is the Catholic Church that is riven with multimillion dollar lawsuits for child molestation, but has seen no need to question its policy of celibacy for its all male priesthood. No such scandal has touched the Episcopal Church, whose broad spirit of inclusion allows people to become priests irrespective of marital status, gender, or sexual orientation. Perhaps the Pope should cast the beam out of his own eye before he seeks to pluck the mote out of his neighbor's.