Sexuality separates Catholics, Anglicans
November 24 2006
By Frances D'Emilio

Vatican City - Pope Benedict XVI and Anglican leader Rowan Williams said there were "serious obstacles" to closer ties between their churches, a blunt acknowledgement of Vatican disapproval of gay bishops, women priests and blessings of same-sex unions in the Anglican church.

Benedict and the Archbishop of Canterbury, talking privately on Thursday in the papal library and then praying together in a chapel, came together to celebrate 40 years of dialogue aimed at uniting the churches split apart in 1534 by King Henry VIII's anger over the Vatican's refusal to annul his marriage.

But their frank assessment of where relations stand now underscored the challenges. the rest