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Posted: 11:47 PM Oct 10, 2011
Pope Denounces "Inhuman" Mafia In Southern Italy
Region is home to one of the world's biggest cocaine trafficking mafias
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Pope Benedict XVI delivers his message Sunday during his visit to Rome's Ardeatine Graves, where 335 Italians were slaughtered by occupying Nazis on March 24, 1944
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LAMEZIA TERME, Italy (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI has denounced the
mafia that plagues southern Italy, urging residents there to respond to the region's suffering by caring for one another and the common good.
Benedict made the comments Sunday while celebrating an open-air
Mass in Calabria in the "toe" of boot-shaped Italy.
The region is home to a mafia which is one of the world's biggest cocaine traffickers. Calabria is also one of the poorest regions in Italy.
Benedict said high unemployment and Calabria's "often inhuman
criminality wound the fabric of society."
He praised Calabrians for their ability to live with such problems and urged them to continue responding to the ills afflicting the region with faith and Christian values.
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