rich patrons who offer the Church dirty money gained
through exploitation, telling them to take back their cheques
and burn them.
"I think of some benefactors of the Church that say 'take
this offer for the Church', and it is profit from the blood of
those abused, treated as slaves, workers with poorly paid
jobs," he told the faithful on Saint Peter's Square
"I say to these people: 'Please, take back your cheque, burn
it'. The people of God, the Church, does not need dirty
money," he said at the end of his weekly general audience
at the Vatican.
The Argentine has repeatedly denounced those who profit
from slavery, corruption or exploitation, including several
heated attacks on the mafia, from Italy to Mexico
In 2014 he expelled all unrepentant mafia members from the
Church and condemned them to Hell in the afterlife in a
move which sparked fears of retaliation from the underworld.
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