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Vatican Court president under investigation for alleged complicity with Sicilian Mafia

August 6, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

Giuseppe Pignatone. / Credit: Vatican Media

ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 6, 2024 / 17:35 pm (CNA).
The president of the Vatican Court, Giuseppe Pignatone, is under investigation by the Italian judiciary for allegedly collaborating with the Mafia in th… […]

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Relic of martyr killed by Mafia to be used in prison ministry in Naples

February 29, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

Blessed Rosario Livatino. / Credit: Episcopal Conference of Sicily

Rome Newsroom, Feb 29, 2024 / 09:15 am (CNA).
The relics of Blessed Rosario Livatino, a Catholic judge brutally killed by the Mafia in 1990, will be brought to a prison in Naple… […]

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Mafia in Italy suspected of poisoning priest’s chalice

February 27, 2024 Catholic News Agency 3

Father Felice Palamara. / Credit: Father Felice Palamara / Facebook

ACI Stampa, Feb 27, 2024 / 15:00 pm (CNA).
During evening Mass on Feb. 24, Father Felice Palamara, a parish priest in Cessaniti, a village in the Vibo Valentia province of Ital… […]

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‘You are not alone’: Pope Francis meets women who escaped the Mafia

October 30, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Pope Francis meets with a group of women who escaped criminal organizations in Italy on Oct. 30, 2023, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media

Vatican City, Oct 30, 2023 / 14:15 pm (CNA).
Pope Francis on Monday encouraged a group of women who e… […]

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Blood-stained shirt of beatified judge killed by Mafia displayed in Rome

January 20, 2023 Catholic News Agency 3

The faithful venerate a relic of Blessed Rosario Livatino at the Church of San Salvatore in Lauro, Italy, Jan. 20, 2023. / Daniel Ibañez/CNA

Rome Newsroom, Jan 20, 2023 / 13:30 pm (CNA).
The shirt worn by Blessed Rosario Livatino when he was mu… […]

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Blood of St. Januarius liquefies in Naples on feast day

September 19, 2022 Catholic News Agency 2

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Rome Newsroom, Sep 19, 2022 / 04:46 am (CNA).
The blood of Saint Januarius liquefied on Monday at a Mass in Naples, where the archbishop sharply condemned the city’s “cancerous mafia cult… […]

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Godfather ban: Sicilian Catholic diocese suspends naming of godparents at baptism for 3 years

October 20, 2021 Catholic News Agency 0

Baptism. / Josh Applegate via Unsplash.com.

Rome Newsroom, Oct 20, 2021 / 06:10 am (CNA).
There will be no godfathers named in the Sicilian archdiocese of Catania for the next three years due to a decree issued by the archbishop that came into f… […]

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‘They are killing Naples’: Catholic archbishop appeals for an end to mafia violence

October 12, 2021 Catholic News Agency 0

Archbishop Domenico Battaglia of Naples, Italy. / Vincenzo Amoruso via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Rome Newsroom, Oct 12, 2021 / 06:17 am (CNA).
The archbishop of the Italian city of Naples responded on Tuesday to a spate of deadly violence with a… […]

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Vatican creates group to study separating mafia from the Catholic Church

May 10, 2021 Catholic News Agency 4

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Vatican City, May 10, 2021 / 04:10 am (CNA).
The Vatican’s human development office has created a working group on the topic of the expulsion of criminal organizations from the Catholic Church.The group was crea… […]

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Pope Francis: Martyred Catholic judge showed mafia’s ‘intrinsic denial of the Gospel’

March 31, 2021 CNA Daily News 0

Rome Newsroom, Mar 31, 2021 / 05:00 pm (CNA).- Pope Francis has said that the martyrdom of an Italian Catholic judge in 1990 showed the mafia’s “intrinsic denial of the Gospel.” In the preface to a new book, published March 31 by Vatican News, the pope… […]

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