Benedict XVI opens Synod, says keep God in public life

Pope Benedict, opening the first major Church meeting since his election, said on Sunday that trying to keep God out of public life was &#14...

Pope Benedict, opening the first major Church meeting since his election, said on Sunday that trying to keep God out of public life was ‘‘not tolerance but hypocrisy’’.

The Pope, during a solemn Mass in St Peter’s Basilica, opening a Synod of more than 250 Bishops from 118 countries, also said that too many Catholic lives could be compared to ‘‘vinegar rather than wine’’ because of the indifference to God.

He homed in on concerns dear to him since his election on April 19—the health of the faith of individual Catholics and the entire Church and God’s place in public life. ‘The type of tolerance, which permits God as a private opinion but refuses to allow him in the public arena, is, in the reality of the world and our life, not tolerance but hypocrisy,’’ he said. ‘‘There can be no justice where man makes himself the only master of the world and of himself,’’ he said during the Mass attended by thousands.

The Synod’s official theme is the Sacrament of the Eucharist, which Catholics believe is Christ’s body and blood. —PTI

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