The leader of the rightwing
anti-immigrant, anti-euro Northern League party told ANSA news
agency on Monday that "someone is talking too much in the name
of the (Catholic) Church".
"My argument is not with the Church but with someone who is
talking too much in its name," Matteo Salvini said.
"Someone is doing politics in the name of the Church".
Salvini spoke in reaction to comments by the leader of the
Italian Bishops' Conference (CEI) blasting unscrupulous
politicians pandering to anti-immigrant sentiments to win votes.
"Unfortunately (anti-immigrant feeling) is being fueled by
a handful of cheap peddlers willing to say extraordinarily inane
things just to get a vote," Msgr. Nunzio Galantino said earlier
in the day.
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