Is it my imagination, or is this priest in more trouble for jogging with no clothes on in the dark than Fr Rydzyk is for spewing anti-Semitism to huge numbers of his listeners?

The jogging priest made the excuse that “he sweats profusely” and did not expect anyone to see him in the dark. He seems to be a harmless crank, although he risks being put on the sex offenders register for indecent exposure, which may mean the end of his priestly career.

Rydzyk, of huge and poisonous influence, is not suspended from ministry, but even gets to meet the Pope soon after his latest anti-Semitic outburst.

The Vatican, disgracefully surprised that this caused offence, “scrambled” to assure Jewish organizations that the meeting "did not imply any change in the Holy See's well-known position regarding relations between Catholics and Jews"”

"The most obvious thing that any charitable Jew would assume is that [the pope] met with [Rydzyk] to tell him off," said Rabbi David Rosen, director of interreligious affairs at the American Jewish Committee and a member of the commission that negotiated the relations between Israel and the Vatican when the Vatican first recognized Israel in 1993.

"I very much hope that's what he did," Rosen added, "since it would be very disturbing and totally out of character with Pope Benedict and his commitment to fighting anti-Semitism and promoting Catholic-Jewish relations for him not to hit [Rydzyk] on the head."

I, too, hope the Pope hit him on the head – preferably with a bound volume of all recent Vatican documents about Catholic-Jewish relations.

Why is Fr Rydzyk, a notoriously anti-Semitic priest with a dangerous amount of influence, given the honour of a meeting with the Pope and treated so lightly by his superiors, while Nude Jogger Priest might lose his job, although he seems to have done no harm to anyone?

Why the unequal treatment? Would anyone arrange for Nude Jogger Priest to meet with the Pope? Or how about unfrocking Fr Rydzyk (but in the sacked-from-priesthood way, of course, not in the other sense)?