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Vatican group considers excommunicating Mafia members
August 08, 2017
Popes have long warned that Mafia members have effectively excommunicated themselves by committing grave sins
Priest arrested for allegedly helping mafia steal millions from migrant fund
May 16, 2017
Police said Fr Edoardo Scordio was the 'organiser of a true system of exploitation of public funds destined for the migrant emergency'
Pope gives young people three missions ahead of synod next year
April 10, 2017
Pope Francis said that the Church needed to hear the voices of young people
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March 20, 2017
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Follow drug supply chains to corrupt banks, says Pope
November 29, 2016
The Pope addressed the Pontifical Academy of Sciences during a seminar on drug abuse prevention
How to mislabel a ‘devout’ Catholic
July 19, 2016
Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano may have been able to quote scripture, but that's no indication of his piety
The Italian Church must stop carrying out mafia funerals
August 24, 2015
Canon Law makes it clear that funerals should be refused to 'manifest sinners to whom a Church funeral could not be granted without public scandal to the faithful'
Lavish mafia funeral in Rome sparks fury
August 24, 2015
Fr Giancarlo Manieri, who celebrated the requiem mass for Vittorio Casamonica, said he was unaware of what was going to happen outside his church
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