Pope Benedict XVI -- at a huge outdoor Mass today (March 25, 2012) in Leon, Mexico -- condemned drug trafficking and corruption in Mexico, urging people to renounce violence in the country where a brutal war between cartels has killed tens of thousands of people, according to the Reuters website.
On his last day in Mexico, the pope said Mass for a vibrant crowd that organizers estimated at more than 600,000 people in a sprawling park on the edge of Leon -- a central city which has escaped the worst of the criminal violence plaguing the country.
The 84-year-old pope addressed the biggest crowd of his Latin American trip from a massive white altar platform on a hillside, sprinkling his sermon with words such as conversion and reconciliation.
In a blazing sunshine, Benedict prayed that Mexicans would be given the strength "to boldly promote peace, harmony, justice, and solidarity."
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