Would the Mafia target Pope Francis over Vatican reforms? By John Dickie, special for CNN updated 10:55 AM EST, Fri November 15, 2013 Editors note: John Dickie is the author of several books on the mafia, including Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia. He is a Professor of Italian Studies at University College London. (CNN) -- I dont know if organized criminals have the capability to do something to the Pope. But they are certainly thinking about it. These words, uttered in a recent interview by an Italian anti-Mafia prosecutor, dont quite justify the alarming worldwide headlines they provoked, but at the same time it would be rash to dismiss them out of hand. The new Pope represents a serious threat to some established criminal interests at a critical moment in the long history of the Mafias relationship with Catholicism -- a past marked by both intimacy and violence. cnn/2013/11/15/opinion/mafia-pope-dickie/index.html?sr=fb111513popefrancis6p
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