Covid and the pandemic and are using it to enrich themselves through corruption. He labelled organisations run by mob bosses as "structures of sin" and are not people of faith.
Italian police claim crime clans are using the pandemic to offer hard-up families loans to buy food, leading them to financial ruin.
Police say mob loan sharks are also bailing out businesses hit by the pandemic and then demanding exorbitant interest rates.Pope Francis said: "Mafias are present in various part of the world and, taking advantage of the pandemic, they are enriching themselves through corruption."These structures of sin, mafia structures, are against the gospel and mistake idolatry for faith."His address comes on a day Italy mourns the death of "all.
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