John Paul II is to meet the leader of the Church of England
just weeks before a crisis meeting within the Anglican Communion, the Catholic
Herald newspaper reported.
The encounter between the Pope and Anglican Archbishop Rowan Williams of
Canterbury would be their first.
The newspaper said: "But the event on Oct. 4 will be overshadowed by the
impending summit of world Anglican primates in the wake of the election by the
American Episcopalian Church of Canon Gene Robinson, a divorced homosexual man,
as Anglican bishop of New Hampshire."