Right, I've just read this on the BBC and I was quite shocked that the Pope would say such things knowing that it would be reported on so widely. Likening climate change to homosexuality in it's danger to the world....? It may be his (and a good deal of other Catholics) opinion that all gays should burn in hell, but support seems to be running thinner for Catholics and their views in the last ten years or so. Curiously enough, a good number of the clergymen whose hands inappropriately, yet 'accidentally', slipped down the pants of choir boys in the south west of the US, still seem to be working. This is despite a very long and well publicised court case and corresponding out of court settlement. Hypocrisy. Also, some of the comments that readers had posted surprised me a little. I was interested what younger members of society thought about the matters in that article, whether they believe in god and the bible or not. It would be nice to keep this constructive rather than letting it descend into a brawl . Jon