The Catholic Church in Italy has occasionally been blamed for staying idle and even accepting the mafia at times, however, in recent decades, it has taken a strong anti-mafia stance.
An Italian association dedicated to keeping alive the memory of victims of mafia violence have donated oil produced at the site where two judges were killed to several Italian dioceses for the annual Holy Thursday Chrism Mass.
The Catholic Church in Italy has occasionally been blamed for staying idle and even accepting the mafia at times, however, in recent decades, it has taken a strong anti-mafia stance.
The brother of the widow of a police escort agent who died with anti-Mafia magistrate Giovanni Falcone in a Cosa Nostra bombing on May 23 1992 was sentenced to 12 years in jail on Mafia charges on Thursday. (ANSA)
President Sergio Mattarella and Premier Giorgia Meloni on Wednesday led the tributes on the 31st anniversary of the Via d'Amelio Cosa Nostra bombing in which anti-mafia magistrate Paolo Borsellino and five members of his security detail were murdered. "On the anniversary of the Via D'Amelio massacre, the Republic bows to the memory of Paolo Borsellino,…