Vatican dicastery forms working group on excommunication of mafias On: 5/10/2021, By , In: World .Pope Francis gives a homily during which he said mafiosi are not in communion with God and are excommunicated, in this June 21, 2014, file photo from Sibari, Italy. Marking the May 8 beatification of Italian anti-Mafia Judge Rosario Livatino, a Vatican dicastery announced a working group on the excommunication of mafias. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) .Pope Francis gives a homily during which he said mafiosi are not in communion with God and are excommunicated, in this June 21, 2014, file photo from Sibari, Italy. Marking the May 8 beatification of Italian anti-Mafia Judge Rosario Livatino, a Vatican dicastery announced a working group on the excommunication of mafias. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Vatican dicastery aims for excommunication of mafias
A new working group has been established by the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development
Updated: May 11, 2021 05:58 AM GMT
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Blessed Rosario Livatino. (Photo: vaticannews)
Marking the beatification of an Italian judge murdered by the mafia, a Vatican office announced the formation of a working group on the excommunication of mafias.
The group, working under the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, plans to continue and expand work begun by the dicastery in 2018 when it launched an international network against organized crime and corruption.
The dicastery announced the working group May 8, the day of the beatification of Blessed Rosario Livatino, an anti-mafia judge martyred in 1990 by four members of the crime syndicate known as Cosa Nostra.
At a recent news conference, the Vatican denounced UK immigration rules as it announced plans for the 107th World Day of Migrants and Refugees. The event, set to take place on September 26, will be around the theme ‘Toward an Even Wider We’, with the Migrants and Refugee section at the Vatican spearheading the campaign.
Speakers at the news conference addressed the challenges immigrants and refugees face, whether at the US southern border with Mexico or the UK, highlighting specifically how the coronavirus pandemic and hostile government policies have exacerbated the challenges they have to deal with.
In a video message for the launch of a media campaign for the 107th World Day of Migrants and Refugees, Pope Francis said: “We are all in the same boat and we are called to commit ourselves so that no more walls separate us, so that there are no longer others but only one we, a we as wide as us, an us as great as all of humanity.”
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Pope Francis gives a homily during which he said mafiosi are not in communion with God and are excommunicated, in this June 21, 2014, file photo from Sibari, Italy. Marking the May 8 beatification of Italian anti-Mafia Judge Rosario Livatino, a Vatican dicastery announced a working group on the excommunication of mafias. (Credit: Paul Haring/CNS.)
Marking the beatification of an Italian judge murdered by the Mafia, a Vatican office announced the formation of a working group on the excommunication of mafias.
ROME Marking the beatification of an Italian judge murdered by the Mafia, a Vatican office announced the formation of a working group on “the excommunication of mafias.”
(RNS) When U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced Wednesday (May 5) that the White House would back efforts to suspend intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines, it was a victory for Vatican officials and U.S. Catholic groups that had long supported loosening vaccine patents to help expand production of the life-saving shots.
The decision came after a months-long campaign to convince the White House of the wisdom of the move spearheaded by Asian and African nations but aided by the Vatican and U.S. Catholic groups.
And as negotiations continue at the World Trade Organization on what the waivers will look like, President Joe Biden, the second Catholic president in U.S. history, may end up leaning further on Pope Francis and his team at the Vatican.