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Mafiosotkin uskoo Jumalaan, Raamattu on överinvetejien öky"uskonto"

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Mafiosotkin uskoo Jumalaan, Raamattu on överinvetejien öky"uskonto"

Saahan se mafioso esittää teatteria loppuun asti siinä kuin joku muukin.

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Kuten Raamatun Jumala, joka leikkii auttavansa uskoviaan

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The mafia continues to exist partly due to complicity on the part of various important social partners. What role has the Church had in the struggle against the mafia? Would it be fair to say that, at an institutional level rather than on the part of individual priests, the Church has been far from strident in its criticisms of the mafia?

That’s a pretty good summary—although rather generous to the Church! The fact that it took until 1993 for the Pope to come out and declare the mafia an evil speaks for itself. During the Cold War, the Vatican was far more concerned about Communism in Sicily than it was about the mafia. At the local level, there has been a great deal of complicity between individual churchmen and the mafia—as well as some extraordinary instances of heroic resistance.

Many mafiosi also profess a version of the Catholic faith. It helps them live with themselves. As one mafia defector has recently said:

We mafiosi are believers because […] we are made of flesh and blood like everyone else. Of course, the first few times it is bad to see those people dying while we…, well…, we act as executioners. But afterwards it becomes normal.

Religion – or what passes for it – is also the cultural glue that keeps Cosa Nostra compact. It is not just that the dynastic politics of Cosa Nostra’s leading kinship networks are played out at religious rites of passage like Christenings, weddings and funerals. Becoming a mafioso means taking on a new identity, and a strange form of religious morality is often integral to that identity. ‘I kill you before God’, as one man of honour announced to a petty crook he executed in public a few years ago.

http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/als_page3/_cosa_nostra_history_sicilian_mafia.html

http://books.google.fi/books?id=T4hvyB1aN4wC&pg=PA32&lpg=PA32&dq=mafia church cosa nostra&source=bl&ots=BlRF3HzOGZ&sig=9_YztY_PpGWsFbxrh3hdr3bRxjE&hl=fi&ei=lGE7Tde6NYbtsgbksNTzBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CGEQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=mafia church cosa nostra&f=false

http://bjc.oxfordjournals.org/content/50/1/156.full

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