Organized Crime Harms Culture, Italian Cardinal Says on Visit to Mexico EFE
go to original May 11, 2013

Italian Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, president of the Pontifical Council for Culture, speaks during a press conference Wednesday at Mexico City's Soumaya Museum. (EFE)

MEXICO CITY - Organized crime "is anti-culture" and sects associated with criminal activities, such as Mexico's Holy Death sect, are "blasphemous," Italian Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi said during a visit to Mexico.

"Organized crime is not culture, it is anti-culture. It cancels out the great values in social, human and personal relations," Ravasi, who is president of the Pontifical Council for Culture, said in a press conference at the Soumaya Museum.

Fighting organized crime requires more than just a law enforcement response from the state, Ravasi, who is close to Pope Francis, said.

"The critical element is education, the formation of a new human model" based on a "diversified" and "diffuse" culture, the cardinal said.

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