NEWSMAX / REUTERS: …Nicola Gratteri, the leading Calabrian mob prosecutor, dismissed headlines that said the mafia wanted to kill the pontiff following another interview the senior investigator gave to an Italian newspaper on Wednesday.
Instead, Gratteri said he was simply pointing out that the Pope’s efforts to break historic ties that the ‘Ndrangheta, as the Calabrian mafia is known, has maintained with the Roman Catholic Church is angering mob bosses.
“Since the mafias need popular consensus to control their territory, they need to be seen as close to the Church,” Gratteri told Reuters. “Pope Francis is saying clearly that there can be no compromises with mafias that extort and murder.” … (more)
