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Lucas

Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 4:56 pm

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Pope Benedict has opened a meeting of Roman Catholic bishops from around the world, the first under his pontificate.
During the three-week synod, bishops are expected to discuss a range of controversial issues with the new Pope.

Church attendance, divorce, celibacy and abortion rights are all expected to feature on the synod's agenda.

Speaking at the synod's opening Mass in St Peter's Basilica, Benedict XVI said religion should play a role in public life.
"A tolerance which allows God as a private opinion but which excludes Him from public life... is not tolerance but hypocrisy," the Pope said in the homily.

"When man makes himself the only master of the world and master of himself, justice cannot exist."

[Extracts from BBC World]

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