Pope denounces "inhuman" mafia in southern Italy

Yahoo News Sunday 9th October, 2011

LAMEZIA TERME, Italy – Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday denounced the "inhuman" mafia that plagues southern Italy and urged residents there to respond to the region's suffering by caring for one another and the common good. Benedict made the comments while celebrating an open-air Mass in Lamezia Terme, in Calabria in the "toe" of boot-shaped Ital...

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