Sicilian cardinal: no funerals for Mafia leaders
CWN - May 17, 2011
Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe of Naples has announced that prominent Mafia leaders will no longer be allowed Catholic funerals if there is no evidence of their repentance.
"If Mafiosi were repentant it would be a different story, but as this is not the case, they cannot be godfathers, or witnesses to a marriage, or have a funeral in church," the cardinal told reporters.
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