Posted on 03/18/2017 10:02:12 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A bishop in Sicily has banned known mafia criminals from acting as godfathers at baptisms in churches in his diocese.
Michele Pennisi, bishop of Monreale, near Palermo, said Friday he had issued a decree to that effect in a bid to challenge any notion that the bosses of organized crime have a paternalistic side to them.
“The mafia has always taken the term ‘Godfather’ from the Church to give its bosses an air of religious respectability, whereas in fact the two worlds are completely incompatible,” the bishop told AFP.
Pennisi’s diocese includes Corleone, a vendetta-haunted village inland from Palermo which was the birthplace of Don Corleone, the fictional Godfather in Mario Puzo’s novel and Francis Coppola’s films. …
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He’s lucky they don’t extoiminate him.
They just might make him an offer he can’t refuse.
And virtually everywhere, pro-aborts waltz up for Communion.
This sounds like discrimination.
When I first saw “The Godfather,” I sat for a while, stunned, after that scene. That has to be one of the greatest since ever in film.
Bishop has in-person audience with Jesus is 3...2...1...
Don’t tell that to Michael Corleone.
Mafiaphobia ???
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