Mafia ‘adore evil’ and are ‘excommunicated’, says Pope Francis

excommunicatePope launches strongest papal attack on organised crime since Pope John Paul in 1993 in impromptu comments about southern Italy’s ‘Ndrangheta crime group.

“Those who in their lives follow this path of evil, as mafiosi do, are not in communion with God. They are excommunicated,” Pope Francis said in impromptu comments at a mass before tens of thousands of people. MORE