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Sicilian cardinal: no funerals for Mafia leaders

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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  • Posted by: Obregon - May. 19, 2011 12:35 AM ET USA

    I can hear the progressive side of the Church already screaming, "The Church has no compassion."

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The Church celebrates the Optional Memorial of St. Ephrem, Deacon (306-373), called "the Harp of the Holy Spirit." Ephrem is the great classic Doctor of the Syrian church. As deacon at Edessa, he vigorously combated the heresies of his time, and to do so more effectively wrote poems and hymns about the…

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