I would say that Pope Benedict XVI’s indictment of abortion, divorce, and same-sex marriage as “dangerous threats to the common good” is sort of like a pot calling a kettle black, but that would be in the running for understatement of the year.

It would be more accurate to say something along the lines of “That’s like the leader of an organization embroiled in a worldwide scandal involving not only the widespread sexual molestation of children, but also systematic attempts to conceal and cover-up the abuse calling a loving, faithful couple ‘insidious’ simply because they happen to be the same gender.”

I’m not suggesting that just because a few handful of priests are guilty of some pretty horrific crimes, the Catholic church abandon all of its tenets - outdated and intolerant as some of them may be - and start embracing the very institutions that were supposedly prohibited by the dudes who wrote The Bible.

It’s just hard to hear a guy who had direct knowledge of the molestation of 200 deaf children and chose to do nothing about it refer to anything other than taking no action after hearing about the molestation of over 200 deaf children as “insidious.”  So while the Pope is certainly welcome to his opinions, he could use a little work on his timing.