THE Pope's offer to Anglican opponents of female priests to convert to Catholicism was targeted at the church's Australian and US congregations, secret US diplomatic cables reveal..
The cables, made public by WikiLeaks, also reveal the British ambassador to the Vatican warned the offer could have led to discrimination and violence against Catholics.
The confidential cable also reveals the Pope's invitation angered senior Anglicans
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Cables show Ireland irked Vatican on sovereignty
Newly released U.S. diplomatic cables indicate that the Vatican felt "offended" that Ireland failed to respect Holy See "sovereignty" by asking high-ranking churchmen to answer questions from an Irish commission probing decades of sex abuse of minors by clergy.
That the Holy See used its diplomatic-immunity status as a tiny city-state to try to thwart the Irish fact-finding probe has long been known. But the WikiLeaks cables, published by Britain's The Guardian newspaper on Saturday, contain delicate, behind-the-scenes diplomatic assessments of the highly charged situation.
The Vatican press office declined to comment on the content of the cables Saturday, but decried the leaks as a matter of "extreme seriousness."
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