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SBC leader Russell Moore to Trump: Time to leave. ‘People are dead’
By Bob Smietana — January 8, 2021
(RNS) — Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission and an outspoken 'Never Trumper,' called for the president to leave.
Pro-Trump prayer meeting filled with calls for a ‘miracle’
By Bob Smietana — January 6, 2021
(RNS) — Evangelical and charismatic Trump supporters admitted on a prayer call their hopes the election results would be overturned are likely to be in vain.
Pope Francis to mafia: Repent and all will be forgiven
By Reuters — February 23, 2015
The Lord is waiting for you and the Church will welcome you if your willingness to serve good is as clear and public as your choice to serve evil was," Pope Francis said.
Mafia ‘betray the gospel,’ Italian bishops say in rare rebuke
By Josephine McKenna — January 2, 2015
ROME (RNS) Bishops from the heart of Mafia country broke their silence and denounced organized crime, just two days after Pope Francis called for a "conversion" from the mob's sinful ways.
Pope Francis says Mafia members are ‘excommunicated’
By Josephine McKenna — June 23, 2014
ROME (RNS) Francis' determination to challenge organized crime groups has provoked warnings that he himself could become a mafia target.
Pope Francis to visit the heart of Italy’s mafia country
By Josephine McKenna — June 19, 2014
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Francis' frank determination to challenge organized crime groups has sparked warnings that he could become a mafia target. Last May, he warned mobsters that they would "go to hell" if they did not repent.
Mob threats aside, Pope Francis will pray with victims of organized crime
By Eric J. Lyman — March 17, 2014
ROME (RNS) In November, famed anti-mob prosecutor Nicola Gratteri said Pope Francis’ financial reforms at the Vatican were making the Calabrian mob “very nervous" and could prompt death threats.
Vatican downplays mob threats against Pope Francis
By Eric J. Lyman — November 15, 2013
ROME (RNS) The Vatican's chief spokesman told reporters on Friday that the Vatican was “extremely calm” regarding a possible mob threat against Pope Francis.
Prosecutor warns of a mob threat against Pope Francis
By Eric J. Lyman — November 13, 2013
ROME (RNS) Pope Francis has spoken out strongly against organized crime in the past, specifically naming the country's four main organized crime groups last May.
Sicily bishop forbids church funerals for mobsters
By Alessandro Speciale — June 24, 2013
ROME (RNS) “Being a Christian is incompatible with having links to Mafia organizations,” said a Sicilian bishop who won't allow church funerals for convicted mobsters.
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