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Archive Home > 2009 > January > 13 > Vatican takes issue with drug traffickers

Vatican takes issue with drug traffickers


January 13, 2009

MEXICO CITY — Decrying the violence that Mexicans are enduring, the Vatican has suggested excommunication as a possible punishment for drug traffickers whose war with the government has led to the deaths of thousands in the last year.

But the Roman Catholic Church’s severest....

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