Pope Francis takes aim at the Mafia

CBS News ^ | May 26, 2013 | CBS Interactive Inc

[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...

[skimbell]

Pope ought to get 0 to help. Remember when "The One" first ascended into the presidency? First thing he and (With)Holder did was take out the east coast Mafia for their homeboys in Chicago. It ended as fast as it started. 0 was only interested in helping the boys back home.

[Christie at the beach]

Mafia is running/controlling our government.

[Puppage]

I’ll make you a novina you can’t refuse.

[freedumb2003]

First thing he and (With)Holder did was take out the east coast Mafia for their homeboys in Chicago. It ended as fast as it started. 0 was only interested in helping the boys back home.

And violent crime is now almost nonexistent in the Windy City

[SevenofNine]

See NYER

[SevenofNine]

Could be like this ROFL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYnRBX2Trtk

Or THIS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voNs3aHZmQM

[SevenofNine]

You mean introducton of Casino where we see the bosses for the first time those guys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN6mp2NjMhs

[Victor]

"...Mafia is running/controlling our government....."

Which began with the Kennedy administration.....who were basically put in power by the Mafia....only to be abruptly taken out of power, after they doublecrossed their benefactors.

[hoosiermama]

Fyi

[hoosiermama]

And look how that ended!

[SevenofNine]

If you believe old story Sam Giancaia Mafia whack Kennedy

[fatima]

The Mafia has rules and who they can hit.He's just a Pope to them.Been threatened by them but heard a woman with children are off limits.

[Old Yeller]

Did the pope says the Mafiosos could go to Heaven if the just do good works?

[Victor]

Good story as any....I do have on good authority that Cuba was the first Las Vegas, and that Kennedy was put in office to basically protect those interests.

He failed.

Not only that, his brother went after many Mob figures and put them in jail...

You do the math....

[RetiredTexasVet]

The Pope needs to contact Mrs. Slick Willy and have her write one of her “strongly worded letters” to the Mafia ... that should straighten them out real quickly.

[RPTMS]

Nope.

[SevenofNine]

There another story that JFK made Frank Sinatra a fool that other reason too

[RPTMS]

My concerns:

1. Militant Homosexuals

2. Islamists

3. Communists, Marxists, etc.

4. Progressives

2,854,646. The Mafia

[Mrs. Don-o]

Only --- as Pope Francis said --- if, "little by little," they approach closer to the Source of all Good and are "redeemed" through "the Blood of Christ". He wants to make their approach and encounter possible: with Jesus Christ. Redeemer of the World.

Helps to read the whole statement; unfortunately, that's more than the media will give.

[HiTech RedNeck]

At some point they’ll need to make the radical step of putting their trust in Christ rather than in self or world (or, as applicable, though most Mafia are not satanists, devil). They need to start getting the Holy Spirit.