Or, for example, if he claimed to be a Catholic, he would be a hypocrite for being an adulterer as well.
Not necessarily, TenPenny. Do we really know what is in somebody’s heart? We don’t know what he meant by Catholic. Catholicism means different things to different people. There are some homosexuals, who insist that they are Catholic.
So do we really know how he felt about adultery? We don’t unless he gave a sermon on adultery, or preached to others that adultery is wrong. If he said nothing, I am willing to give him the benefit of doubt and assume that he felt ambivalent about adultery.
I am sure there are millions of Catholics in USA who commit adultery, it doesn’t’ make them all hypocrites. Or there are still many gays in the closet, married to someone of other gender. That doesn’t make them hypocrites.
Hypocrites is a term applied to a small group of people, who preach to others one way of life and then they themselves live another way.