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Judge slain in Sicily by mafiosi put on path to sainthood
- May 9, 2021
A magistrate slain by mobsters in Sicily and praised by two popes has been beatified by the Catholic church on Sunday in the last formal step before possible sainthood.
Italian judge latest example of Church’s new test for ‘martyrdom’
- Dec 23, 2020
Rosario Livatino, 37 at the time of his death, will become the first Italian anti-mafia judge to be beatified, following in the footsteps of Father Giuseppe “Pino” Puglisi, the country’s best known anti-mafia priest, who was killed in 1993 and beatified shortly after Pope Francis’s election in 2013.
Once more, Pope Francis loudly and publicly takes on the mob
- Sep 22, 2017
On the 27th anniversary of the death of Italian “kid-judge” Rosario Livatino, killed by the mafia at the age of 38 in 1990, Pope Francis met for the first time ever with the Italian Parliamentary Antimafia Commission at the Vatican where he presented a three level program to fight mafia and corruption in Italy and in the world.
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