Vatican dicastery aims for 'excommunication of mafias'
A new working group has been established by the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development
Updated: May 11, 2021 05:58 AM GMT
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Blessed Rosario Livatino. (Photo: vaticannews)
Marking the beatification of an Italian judge murdered by the mafia, a Vatican office announced the formation of a working group on "the excommunication of mafias."
The group, working under the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, plans to continue and expand work begun by the dicastery in 2018 when it launched an international network against organized crime and corruption.
The dicastery announced the working group May 8, the day of the beatification of Blessed Rosario Livatino, an anti-mafia judge martyred in 1990 by four members of the crime syndicate known as Cosa Nostra.