least eight elections. He also voted for the renewal of the Regional Council in Sicily, a land devastated by mafias. There is no lack of institutional power interconnections with the gangs so that you go to vote just for the resignation of Totò Cuffaro, who was sentenced to five years for aiding and abetting. Despite what appears to policies for a safe place in the Senate and the Presidency of the Region of Sicily is a candidate his heir Raffaele Lombardo Ebba said: "We do not like Garibaldi, we must reassess our robbers." Faced with these applications, I propose a paper published by the bishops of Sicily in 1994, following the murder of Don Pino Puglisi on the part of the Mafia.
Incompatibility of the mafia with the Gospel
'It our duty reiterate the complaint, sometimes expressed as to its absolute incompatibility with the Gospel [...] This incompatibility with the Gospel is intrinsic to the Mafia itself, for its reasons and its purpose, as well as the resources and the methods used. Belongs to the Mafia, with no possibility of an exception to the kingdom of sin and its practitioners as many workers of evil. "
The mafiosi are outside the communion of the church
"For this reason, all those who in any way intentionally, are part of the Mafia, or join it or put acts of complicity with it, ought to know and be living in irreconcilable opposition to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and, consequently, of being out of the communion of his Church. Neither can be considered excluded from this review those who, in either of these things, claimed to coonestarla with external acts of devotion or charity donations. At most, such events must be considered instrumental, and therefore false and sinful themselves. "
a Christian is not permitted to use the Mafia for help or benefits
"For this same reason, to request or accept any form of mediation with those known as belonging to or adjacent to the mafia, and as such, whatever the advantage that if they want to or can obtain, must be considered to fall forever, at least indirectly, but no less guilty in the case of connivance and collusion. "
Against the Mafia, the Church opposes the Gospel
"Against this mafia mentality and violence of the Mafia, we intend to oppose the bishops of Sicily, once more, and more significantly, the force but unarmed irreducible of the Gospel, a force that is itself directed to persuasion, promotion, and to convert people, but at the same time uncompromising in discounts or naive not to authorize transactions for what concerns the evil, anyone to commit or profit from it. "
Don Puglisi new model for all, priests and lay people
«Don Giuseppe Puglisi ha incarnato pienamente questa duplice forza del Vangelo: egli rappresenta un’indicazione per tutti noi; il modello che ne deriva per il clero di Sicilia e per ogni vero cristiano è la sfida che lanciamo a chiunque gli competa. Se questa sfida dovesse bastare a giustificare per la pastorale delle nostre Chiese la qualifica di pastorale di frontiera, noi la accettiamo, ma solo nel senso della duplice forza dei Vangelo appena rivendicato e con l'invincibile speranza di una redenzione sempre possibile per tutti che da esso ci deriva».
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