Thursday, June 28, 2012
Murdered Sicilian anti-Mafia priest to be beatified
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict on Thursday put a popular Sicilian priest who was killed by the Mafia in 1993 on the fast track toward sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church.
The Vatican said the pope had signed a decree recognising that Father Pino Puglisi had been killed "in hatred of the faith", meaning that he can be beatified - the last step before sainthood - without a miracle being attributed to his intercession with God.
There would, however, have to be a miracle found to be due to his intercession for him to be declared a saint.
Puglisi, who had delivered many sermons against the Mafia, the organised crime gangs of the region, was shot dead outside his home in Palermo at a time when there were many mafia killings in the Sicilian capital.
Six mafiosi were sentenced to life in prison for the murder.
(Reporting By Philip Pullella, editing by Tim Pearce)
Copyright © 2013 Reuters
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