Pope Francis lambasts Mafiosi on Italy trip: 'They are excommunicated'

Pope Francis lambasts Mafiosi on Italy trip: 'They are excommunicated'
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Pope Francis took a day trip to Italy's Calabria region, an area of the country overrun by organized crime syndicate 'Ndrangheta, Reuters reported.

He addressed the global drug trafficking group during a mass earlier today, saying that "those who in their lives follow this path of evil, as Mafiosi do, are not in communion with God. They are excommunicated."

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Sarah Eberspacher

Sarah Eberspacher is an associate editor at TheWeek.com. She has previously worked as a sports reporter at The Livingston County Daily Press & Argus and The Arizona Republic. She graduated from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.