ROME – In the heart of Italy’s mob country, a new Catholic parish is being dedicated to the premier patron saints of the anti-Mafia effort, one a Catholic priest and the other a lay judge, both murdered in the 1990s.
Bishop Giuseppe Marciante of Cefalù, located on the island of Sicily near Palermo, announced the plan for the parish in an Aug. 5 interview with his diocesan news outlet. It will be constructed, he said, on land seized from the mob by Italian authorities in a neighborhood called Campofelice di Roccella.
