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Pope to Mafia: Stop the Violence or Go to Hell
NBC News ^
| 3/21
Posted on 03/21/2014 3:37:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Pope Francis delivered a fire-and-brimstone message to the Mafia on Friday: "Repent."
"Blood-stained money, blood-stained power — you can't bring it with you to your next life," the pontiff said during a prayer vigil in Rome for victims of mob violence.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News
KEYWORDS: italy; judgemental; mafia; ndrangheta; pope; popefrancis; smallmindedrules
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To: nickcarraway
Nice thoughts but I don’t think they are too worried.
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posted on
03/21/2014 3:43:43 PM PDT
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: nickcarraway
...you can't bring it with you to your next life...
And if you try, I'll steal it from your casket.
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posted on
03/21/2014 3:43:50 PM PDT
by
Veggie Todd
(The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
03/21/2014 3:45:49 PM PDT
by
sitetest
(If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: nickcarraway
Did he not ever read The Godfather? They know.
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posted on
03/21/2014 3:50:45 PM PDT
by
discostu
(Call it collect, call it direct, call it TODAY!)
To: Don Corleone
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posted on
03/21/2014 3:51:48 PM PDT
by
Psalm 144
(My citizenship is not here.)
To: nickcarraway
That will work everyone knows the Mafia is full of reasonable people, besides they are mostly good Catholics otherwise.
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posted on
03/21/2014 3:53:56 PM PDT
by
PoloSec
( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
To: nickcarraway
That's an awfully nice chapel you have there, Pope Francis. It would be a shame if anything "happened" to it.
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posted on
03/21/2014 3:56:52 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Republican amnesty supporters don't care whether their own homes are called mansions or haciendas.)
To: KarlInOhio
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
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posted on
03/21/2014 4:07:50 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: sitetest
Who is he to judge?
You ARE joking, right?
To: nickcarraway
"Do What?"
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posted on
03/21/2014 4:37:48 PM PDT
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and is not afraid of the unlawful.)
To: Carpe Cerevisi
Dear Carpe Cerevisi,
My tongue is at least partly planted in my cheek, but honestly, to the degree that I'm joking, it's at the expense of the pope.
sitetest
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posted on
03/21/2014 4:41:29 PM PDT
by
sitetest
(If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
To: nickcarraway
Lighten up,... (nah, too easy)
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posted on
03/21/2014 4:43:48 PM PDT
by
Ken H
(What happens on the internet, stays on the internet.)
To: KarlInOhio
They wouldn’t diss the Catholic Church that bad. Yet.
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posted on
03/21/2014 4:45:48 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: Carpe Cerevisi; sitetest
I believe he’s actually quoting Pope Francis.
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posted on
03/21/2014 4:57:23 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: nickcarraway
Too funny, next he’ll be asking Obama to support life.
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posted on
03/21/2014 5:26:23 PM PDT
by
stockpirate
(Only a tidal wave of tyrants blood will return our tree of liberty......)
To: nickcarraway
“Leave the gun, take the rosaries...”
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posted on
03/21/2014 5:28:08 PM PDT
by
TADSLOS
(The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
03/21/2014 6:39:37 PM PDT
by
gusty
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