The Catholic Church must
denounce crime, Vatican Secretary of State Pietro Parolin said
on the eve of Pope Francis's visit to Mexico. "The pope's
presence in Mexico," he said, aims to "help rediscover and live,
in daily life, the announcement and testimony of mercy", the
cardinal said. The Church is called on "to denounce the evil
that is present, raise its voice against all those negative
phenomena starting with corruption, narcotrafficking, violence,
and crime, which prevent the country from swiftly proceeding
along the path of material and spiritual progress". The pope is
leaving for Mexico Friday and will have a stopover at Havana
airport where he will have an historic meeting with Russian
Orthodox Patriarch Kirill.
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