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http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-pope-clergy-20160215-story.html

"Beyond their parishes, the slain priests’ passing often goes unnoticed. “When a priest gets killed, it should be a rallying cry. We should know his name. He should be a martyr,” Shirk said.

The silence suggests a church compromised by drug traffickers offering soul-cleansing donations as well as by politicians applying pressure to downplay the violence.

Suspicions have long swirled over the practice of narco-donations. In some parishes, priests say Mass in churches or chapels bearing the names, on walls and pews, of notorious drug trafficker benefactors. Priests have taken money for dispensing sacraments and have been seen in public with traffickers."

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