Vatican group considers excommunicating Mafia members
August 8, 2017
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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
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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
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Pope Francis said that the Church needed to hear the voices of young people
Morning Catholic must-reads: 20/03/17
March 20, 2017
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Follow drug supply chains to corrupt banks, says Pope
November 29, 2016
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The Pope addressed the Pontifical Academy of Sciences during a seminar on drug abuse prevention
How to mislabel a ‘devout’ Catholic
July 19, 2016
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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
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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
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Fr Giancarlo Manieri, who celebrated the requiem mass for Vittorio Casamonica, said he was unaware of what was going to happen outside his church
Now we owe even more to the Italians
April 23, 2015
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Esteem for Italy’s heroic and altruistic rescue of hundreds of thousands of migrants has surely grown all over Europe
‘May the balm of mercy reach everyone’, says Francis as he proclaims Holy Year
April 11, 2015
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Pope says Holy Year of Mercy is ‘a time to offer everyone the way of forgiveness and reconciliation’
Church directives seek to keep mafia out of Easter processions
April 1, 2015
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Easter Sunday procession in a southern Italian diocese have been infiltrated by the mafia in the past
Morning Catholic must-reads: 28/11/14
November 28, 2014
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