A-Infos (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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