Christian Catholic Hermit Mystic: The Woman Caught in Adultery

JPII in this commentary hits nail on head as to humankind's sins and the males tending to try to get away with their culpability while the women bear much openly, in various types of sins, not only the sexual ones.  Men are far more forceful and have greater voice in blaming, I suppose.  

They tend to have the public mouthpiece more than women do, although some of that is slightly changing...when the point is that God KNOWS the sins of all of us, and we really don't need to be pointing out others' sins unless to the person him- or herself in private, if someone we know who will benefit by the clarification.  This is true for parents in particular who have charge of their children, or teachers, or others such as in families and workplaces--to let others know quietly if they are sinning, if they themselves do not realize it, or even if they do if by some chance one can help them stop. 

This is done often at a price of friendship, though, to those who have much pride in them and cannot cope with fraternal correction or to have their sins pointed out even if the one pointing out acknowledges his or her own sins openly, with the person to try to help the person understand none of us is perfect, but their sin is showing and could be corrected by them if they knew or chose or even to get help in stopping the sin from continuing.

Lord, keep my sins ever before me, and help me to cease the sins that I am aware of and to recognize or have good people inform me of the sins of which I am unaware.  Thank you, Jesus.

Saint John-Paul II

Pope from 1978 to 2005

Mulieris dignitatem, ch.5 (©Libreria editrice Vaticana)

"Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her."

Christ is the one who "knows what is in man" (cf. Jn 2,25) - in man and woman. He knows the dignity of man, his worth in God's eyes. He himself, the Christ, is the definitive confirmation of this worth. Everything he says and does is definitively fulfilled in the Paschal Mystery of the Redemption. Jesus' attitude to the women whom he meets in the course of his Messianic service reflects the eternal plan of God, who, in creating each one of them, chooses her and loves her in Christ (cf. Eph 1,1-5)… Jesus of Nazareth confirms this dignity, recalls it, renews it, and makes it a part of the Gospel and of the Redemption for which he is sent into the world... Jesus enters into the concrete and historical situation of women, a situation which is weighed down by the inheritance of sin. One of the ways in which this inheritance is expressed is habitual discrimination against women in favour of men. This inheritance is rooted within women too. From this point of view the episode of the woman "caught in adultery" is particularly eloquent. In the end Jesus says to her: "Do not sin again", but first he evokes an awareness of sin in the men who accuse… Jesus seems to say to the accusers: Is not this woman, for all her sin, above all a confirmation of your own transgressions, of your "male" injustice, your misdeeds? This truth is valid for the whole human race…A woman is left alone, exposed to public opinion with "her sin", while behind "her" sin there lurks a man - a sinner, guilty "of the other's sin", indeed equally responsible for it. And yet his sin escapes notice, it is passed over in silence… How often, in a similar way, the woman pays for her own sin and she pays all alone! How often is she abandoned with her pregnancy, when the man, the child's father, is unwilling to accept responsibility for it? And besides the many "unwed mothers" in our society, we also must consider all those who, as a result of various pressures, even on the part of the guilty man, very often "get rid of" the child before it is born. "They get rid of it": but at what price?