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Knisja u Mafja
by Robert Aloisio, published by sayitpublications, 2021
When the Italian police arrested Bernardo Provenzano on April 11, 2006, after 43 years on the run, everyone was amazed at how the head of Cosa Nostra, the powerful Sicilian Mafia, was hiding in a poor place, living a simple life. But what most people overlooked was the fact that his hideout was full of holy pictures and statues, symbols of the Catholic faith and instruments of prayer.
Aloisio writes that, at first, he dismissed this as an insignificant detail related to Provenzano, but his research revealed that almost all mafiosi are religious people who claim to do what they do with good intentions. Given that the Mafia is incompatible with the Gospel, it beggars belief that many people, even within the Church, thought that their coexistence was in no way contradictory.
Knisja u Mafja is a new book by Robert Aloisio to be launched on the occasion of the beatification of Judge Rosario Livatino on May 9.
When the Italian police arrested Bernardo Provenzano on April 11, 2006 after 43 years on the run, everyone was amazed at how the head of Cosa Nostra, the powerful Sicilian mafia, was hiding in a poor place, living a simple life.
But what most people overlooked was the fact that his hideout was full of holy pictures and statues, symbols of the Catholic faith and instruments of prayer.
Aloisio writes that at first he dismissed this as an insignificant detail related to Provenzano, but his research revealed that almost all mafiosi are religious people who claim to do what they do with good intentions.
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