I really love the boldness of Pope Benedict. He is right out there in the midst of the cultural battles. He is now making the point that it is important for the Church to be involved in public life and to be embraced. Awesome!
In a message to over 250 Catholic bishops at the Vatican today, Pope Benedict XVI said it was hypocritical to exclude God and religion from public life.
"A tolerance which allows God as a private opinion but which excludes him from public life, from the reality of the world and our lives, is not tolerance but hypocrisy," the pope said in the homily he gave at a three-week-long synod’s opening mass in St Peter’s Basilica. "When man makes himself the only master of the world and master of himself, justice cannot exist. Then, arbitrariness, power and interests rule."
Link: Pope Benedict whacks ‘hypocritical’ secularists.
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