‘Pope Francis’s life is in danger,’ anti-mafia judge warns

Catholic Herald ^ | November 14, 2013

[NYer]

Pope Francis (CNS)

Pope Francis’s life is in danger from ‘ndrangheta, Italy’s most feared crime group, a leading anti-mafia judge has said.

Nicola Gratteri, a magistrate in the southern city of Reggio Calabria, near ‘ndrangheta’s heartland, has said that Pope Francis’s crackdown on financial corruption in the Vatican, has angered bosses in the notorious crime squad.

Gratteri said: “I don’t know if organised crime is in the position to do something, but it’s certainly thinking about it. It could be dangerous.”

He said Francis was “on the right path” in attempting to clean out the stables at the Vatican.

But Mr Gratteri, who has written a book on the Church’s links to ‘ndrangheta, said the mob “that has until now profited from the power and riches derived directly from the church is nervous, agitated.”

Speaking to Il Fatto Quotidiano newspaper, he added: “Pope Bergoglio is dismantling centres of economic power in the Vatican. If the bosses can stop him they won’t hesitate.”

The Vatican spokesman was not available to comment.

[NYer]

Please remember Pope Francis in your prayers, ping!

[kitkat]

BUMP

[jsanders2001]

> Please remember Pope Francis in your prayers, ping!

If this guy is the real deal and I’m not being fooled, he seems to be one of the best popes that’s ever lived during my lifetime.

[Tax-chick]

Organized crime in Italy is very powerful. That’s what happens when the government is a joke, cf. what’s going on in the U.S. now.

Pope Francis has protection, and they aren’t in the dark about what the local environment might kick up.

[humblegunner]

Organized crime in Italy is very powerful.

True that. Look at the Vatican riches and treasures...

[Jim Noble]

You would do well to remember that THIS Pope has very different ideas…

[Salvation]

I don’t think those came from the Italian mafia.

[RichInOC]

A contract on the pope? Especially this one? What could possibly go wrong?

[Talisker]

A contract on the pope? Especially this one? What could possibly go wrong?

LOL, I was thinking the same thing. If the Italian Mob wants to finally find out what "too far" means, this is exactly the way to do it.

[SevenofNine]

OHH that article I told you about yeah I hear about that NYER

Cue Godfather quotes here

[SevenofNine]

OH I see make Mafia a offer they can’t refuse

I get it

[Tax-chick]

Oh, phoop, honey. If you want to see the Vatican’s treasures, all you have to do is go there and get in the line. You can go to the Sistine Chapel. You can see the Pieta and David. You can see the illuminated manuscripts.

Would you rather that Saudi sheiks or George Soros owned all the world’s greatest extant artworks?

[SevenofNine]

Yeah I think I know what happen this happen Pope didn’t want go for it

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

[SevenofNine]

Yeah why open Tax chick

I hear from family friend who got back from Italy they going recently going put archives of St Peter out there early next year

[Tax-chick]

More and more of the cultural treasures is being made available to the public. There have to be controls, so that things are not stolen or destroyed, but we’re in the times where we’ve learned a lot about conservation of old stuff.

If the Church sold what it owned, it would all be gone, hidden from the world. What we need is conservation and access to the public, and that’s happening. Yes, to see it live, the public has to go to Rome. That sucks, but a lot is there to be seen online or in books. I can’t go to Rome. Shoot, I can’t hardly to Walmart.

[RichInOC]

The world would get awfully small awfully fast for those guys, no matter how it went.

[SevenofNine]

You know if they go after the Pope there is special place in hell for the Mafia dons

[RichInOC]

Yeah, and it’s not going to be particularly cool or comfortable for them even before they get there.

[SevenofNine]

Trust me I have feeling security being beef up for the Pope if they hear anything like this

Yeah we could do all Godfather take on this thread man seriously they are beefing up security