Posted on 05/26/2013 4:12:08 PM PDT by skimbell
...The pontiff exhorted Mafiosi to change their ways, issuing the call Sunday, a day after the beatification of an Italian priest in Palermo who was slain in 1993 by mobsters after he defiantly preached against the Mafia...
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That’s the only hope for all of us.
I concur. I salute the preachers (and laymen) of any earthly Christian worship community who are willing to stick their spiritual necks out and admonish and appeal to dangerous practitioners of evil to come to the Lord and get right.
... and in this case, Roman Catholics are the Christian community closest to the situation. It’s happening in their back yard. If they wouldn’t step up to the plate then the Lord would raise another witness... fortunately Pope Francis seems to be taking this matter seriously in the Lord. Don’t let the Mafia use Roman Catholicism as a cloak for evil. Raise a witness for the Lord that tells them to come to Him and get right with Him. I concur in your prayers that these Mafioso will do so.
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