POPE IN PALERMO: HAVE COURAGE, BE HOLY!

No one can take this joy from us! No one can take this strength from us! Courage, dear young people and families of Sicily! Be saints!

Do not be afraid to oppose evil! Together you will be like a forest that grows, perhaps silently, but capable of bearing fruit, of bringing life and of renewing your land in a profound way!

Do not cede to the suggestions of the mafia, which is a road of death, incompatible with the Gospel, as your bishops have said many times!

--Benedict XVI, 4 October 2010