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SixStrings Donating Member (276 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 09:25 AM
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Mexico warns church on drug tainted money

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/09/20/mexico.church.ap/index.html

"MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A spokesman for President Vicente Fox on Tuesday warned that no one may accept illegal funds, responding to a Roman Catholic bishop's statement that the church has no obligation to investigate whether donations come from drug trafficking."

"If they have money, they have to spend it; I don't know why such a scandal has been made of this," Godinez said in a follow-up interview with the Televisa television network Tuesday. "If a drug trafficker gives, we are not going to investigate if he's a trafficker or not.

"Let me explain: We live on this, on the offerings of the faithful. And we do not investigate where they acquired the money."


I guess there really is no comment to add. Just amazing the jaw-dropping hypocrisy.


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