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Pope calls on the mafia to change or 'end up in hell, at annual ceremony for the mafiosi victims
Pope Francis, in an annual ceremony held to remember the hundreds of innocent people murdered by the Italian mafia, made a solemn plea for mobsters to change or else “end up in hell”. The mafia continues to plague much of southern Italy: just on Monday, a four-year-old boy was shot dead, along with his mother and her boyfriend, near the southern city of Taranto in a suspected mob hit. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesSure all those good 'Catholic' Mafia types know all they have to do is say a few Our Fathers, bung the Church some dosh, and their place in heaven will be assured.
Mar 22nd, 2014 - 10:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0That's how the Catholic Church has worked since it's inception, why should anyone believe that it is going to change now?
His Holiness would do better excommunicating known Mafia types until they change their ways - it still probably wouldn't work - but it would at least be a start.
The pope had a 2 hour meeting with the old hag, one of the most corrupt politicians out there and still doesn't have the balls to tell it how it is.
Mar 22nd, 2014 - 11:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0As with all religions, it is a completely useless exercise.
Does he really think the mob are going to listen to him?
He is old and completely out of date.
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Mar 22nd, 2014 - 12:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“The pope had a 2 hour meeting with the old hag, one of the most corrupt politicians out there and still doesn't have the balls to tell it how it is.”
Couldn't agree more. Well said
Mafia, Catholic Church, Argentinian Republic - is there any difference?
Mar 22nd, 2014 - 02:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Mafia is a criminal syndicate in Sicily, Italy. It is a loose association of criminal groups that share a common organizational structure and code of conduct, and whose common enterprise is protection racketeering. Each group, claims sovereignty over a territory, usually a town or village or a neighbourhood (borgata) of a larger city, in which it operates its rackets. Its members call themselves “mafiosi”.
Mar 22nd, 2014 - 02:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Argentine version is called the “Argentine ” Government
Uh... Isn't all the stuff they were doing ALREADY a cavalcade of moral sins?
Mar 22nd, 2014 - 04:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Wow.
That's almost as funny as the Jerry Lewis telethon when he was appealing to the drug dealers.
A brave man perhaps,
Mar 22nd, 2014 - 07:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0let hope he don't end up sleeping with the fishes...
Hard to imagine the pope speaking out against his bosses, think everyone is aware the mafia run the church anyway
Mar 24th, 2014 - 11:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0Ah yes, a famous Italian organisation responsible for murder, corruption, countless other crimes, tells the Mafia to sort themselves out.
Mar 24th, 2014 - 03:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Bless!
Mar 24th, 2014 - 04:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He still believes in hell!
What a Turnip © The Lunatic of Chew Butt 1066 (and all that).
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