RNS-MAFIA-POPE

July 7, 2014
[social_warfare]

Oppido Mamertina Mayor Domenico Giannetta, center, flanked at left by Italian Carabinieri officer Andrea Marino, walks during a religious procession in Oppido Mamertina in southern Italy’s Calabria region. In apparent defiance of Pope Francis, the church procession detoured from its route to honor a convicted mobster under house arrest.

(RNS1-JULY 7) Oppido Mamertina Mayor Domenico Giannetta, center, flanked at left by Italian Carabinieri officer Andrea Marino, walks during a religious procession in Oppido Mamertina in southern Italy’s Calabria region. In apparent defiance of Pope Francis, the church procession detoured from its route to honor a convicted mobster under house arrest. For use with RNS-POPE-MAFIA transmitted July 7, 2014. Creative Commons image by Il Fatto Quotidiano