WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE ITALY - news journal UPDATE - (en) Italy, IFA, UCADI #200 - What's New - 'Ndrangheta Priests (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 From August 1 to 3, 2025, the Forza Italia General Assembly for the

South was held in Reggio Calabria. This was a political initiative by
Tajani's party to finalize the party's programs for the South, and
specifically for Calabria, in view of the regional elections and the
re-election of the Governor under investigation, who has resigned and is
running for re-election. The event unexpectedly opened with a Mass
celebrated by Don Nuccio Cannizzaro, titular priest of the parish of San
Giorgio al Corso, the church of the patron saint of the city of Reggio
Calabria. Don Nuccio is a well-known figure in the community, having
inherited the legacy of Do Stilo, parish priest of Africo.
Like his predecessor, who maintained ties with the 'Ndrangheta and acted
as an intermediary between Calabrian mafia families such as Nirta,
Morabito, Palamara, Barbaro, and Papalia, and the deviant circles of the
clerical institutions, law enforcement, and Freemasonry, Don Nuccio, his
worthy heir, follows in the tradition of maintaining the same
connections. Despite this, he was acquitted by the Reggio Calabria Court
of Appeal on charges of having facilitated, through his own statements,
a family linked to the 'Ndrangheta. The ruling overturned a previous
conviction by the Court, which had convicted him on charges of "mafia
association with the aggravating circumstance of mafia involvement for
having acted in a way that facilitated the 'Ndrangheta."
The fact is that the head of the most important church in the Calabrian
capital is no stranger to surprising statements such as: "We priests
should be allowed to impregnate a woman at least once in our lives, to
see what happens," a statement recorded in a police report relating to
wiretaps ordered by investigating magistrates. The fact is that Don
Cannizzaro is so passionate about the evangelical message that he
claims: "Jesus was the first to go against strict Jewish law." It's
therefore not surprising that during a well-attended homily, the priest
declared, "Enough with the culture of legality that has caused so much
damage." "Parliamentary immunity must be restored; the power chosen by
the vote of Italians must have supremacy." This aligned with the
Trumpian idea, espoused by Governor Occhiuto, that the electorate's vote
constitutes the supreme tribunal, charged with evaluating and judging
politicians who evade the principle of legality and rely on the
protections of majorities.
This conflation of politics and religion, obscene in itself, is
inherently perverse when it inserts a religious rite into a political
event, with the aim of lending authority and charisma to a political
action that has the manifest objective of channeling electoral consensus
by using religious affiliation in an exchange of favors that follows the
path of corruption and marks the level of degradation of political life
in a vast swathe of the country, where clientelism and alliances between
committees dominate. business, politics, religion and criminal associations.

https://www.ucadi.org/2025/09/04/cosa-ce-di-nuovo-preti-di-ndrangheta/
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