a loved one, as a victim of mafia violence. Thank you for your witness,   
   because you are not closed, you are open, you have come forward to tell your   
   story of pain and hope. This is so important, especially for the young. I   
   would like to pray with you, and I do so from the heart, for all victims of   
   the mafia. Even just a few days ago, near Taranto, a crime was committed in   
   which even a child was not spared. But at the same time let us pray together,   
   to ask for the strength to go on, not to be discouraged, but instead to   
   continue to fight against corruption.   
      
   Subject: VISnews140324   
   From: Vatican Information Service - Eng - txt    
      
   Pope Francis continued, speaking off the cuff, "I feel that I cannot   
   finish without saying a word to those who are absent today, to the absent   
   protagonists: to the men and women of the mafia. Please, change your lives,   
   convert, stop what you are doing, stop doing harm. And we pray for you.   
   Convert, I ask you this on my knees; it is for your own good. This life you   
   are living now will not bring you pleasure, it will not bring you joy, it will   
   not bring you happiness. Power, the money you have now from your many dirty   
   dealings, from your many mafia crimes, is blood money, it is power that is   
   stained with blood, and you will not be able to take it with you to the next   
   life. Repent, there is still time, so as not to end up in hell. This is what   
   awaits you if you continue on this path. You have a father and a mother: think   
   of them. Cry a little, and repent".   
      
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   AUDIENCES   
   Vatican City, 24 March 2014 (VIS) -; Today, the Holy Father received in   
   audience:   
   - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation   
   of Peoples.   
   - Three prelates of the Episcopal Conference of Guinea, on their "ad   
   limina" visit:   
   - Archbishop Vincent Coulibaly of Conakry;   
   - Bishop Emmanuel Felemou of Kankan;   
   - Bishop Raphael Balla Guilavogui of N'Zerekore.   
   On Saturday, 22 March, the Holy Father received in audience:   
   - Cardinal Marc Ouellet, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops.   
   - Nguyen Sinh Hung, president of the parliament of Vietnam.   
      
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   OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS   
   Vatican City, 22 March 2014 (VIS) -; The Holy Father has:   
   - accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the archdiocese of Ho Chi   
   Minh City , Vietnam, presented by Cardinal Jean-Baptiste Pham Minh Man, upon   
   reaching the age limit. He is succeeded by Bishop Paul Bui Van Doc, coadjutor   
   of the same archdiocese.   
   - appointed Rev. Juan Armando Perez Talamantes and Rev. Alfonso Gerardo   
   Miranda Guardiola as auxiliaries of the archdiocese of Monterrey (area 17,886,   
   population 7,387,000, Catholics 5,910,000, priests 595, permanent deacons 44,   
   religious 1228), Mexico.   
   Bishop-elect Perez Talamantes was born in Nuevo Leon, Mexico in 1970, and was   
   ordained a priest in 1997. He holds a licentiate in philosophy from the   
   Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, and has served in the following   
   pastoral roles: vicar, spiritual director, coordinator of discipline and   
   prefect of studies in the major seminary of Monterrey, and priest of the   
   parishes of "Sagrada Familia" and "San Francisco de   
   Asis" in Apocada. He is currently episcopal vicar for the Zone X and   
   director of the Benedict XVI Institute for the formation of laypersons in   
   ordinary pastoral care.   
   Bishop-elect Miranda Guardiola was born in Monterrey, Mexico in 1966 and was   
   ordained a priest in 1998. He holds a licentiate in moral theology from the   
   Pontifical University of Mexico. He has held the following pastoral roles:   
   prefect of discipline and studies in the minor seminary, lecturer in the major   
   seminary, deputy priest in the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, assessor for   
   groups of divorced persons and rector of the temple of "St. Maximilian   
   Maria Kolbe". He is currently secretary chancellor of the Curia and   
   director of the ecclesiastical archive and department of history of the   
   archdiocese of Monterrey. He is the author of nine books.   
   - appointed Archbishop Pedro Lopez Quintana, apostolic nuncio in Lituania, as   
   apostolic nuncio in Estonia and Latvia.   
   - appointed Archbishop Pierre Nguyen Van Tot as apostolic nuncio in Sri Lanka.   
   Archbishop Nguyen Van Tot was previously apostolic nuncio in Costa Rica.   
      
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