The Rev. Salvatore Cubito blesses Samuel De Luca during his baptism ritual at a church in Catania, Italy, Oct. 3, 2021.
God parenting, church officials said, had fallen to earth as a secular custom between relatives or neighbors — many deficient in faith or living in sin, and was now a mere method of strengthening family ties.Italian prosecutors have tracked baptisms to map out how underworld bosses spread influence, and mob widows in court have saved their most poisonous spite for “the real Judases” who betray the baptismal bond.
Morosini said that a top Vatican official, Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, who is now on trial in the Vatican on money laundering charges, responded that all of Calabria’s bishops needed to agree before moving ahead. They did not. “It creates a stronger tie between the families,” said Nino Sicali, 68, as he sliced a swordfish with a machete at the Catania fish market. When he was made a godfather, he said, he reciprocated by making his godson’s father a “compare” — or co-father — to his own children. Over the years, Sicali said he was obligated to help his struggling compare out financially. “He died owing me 12,000 euros,” he said.
He worried that by getting rid of the tradition, the church was “throwing the baby out with the bathwater.” “I don’t understand why the church is doing this,” Ivan Arena, 29, who may be the last godfather of Catania, said after the baptism of his nephew, who was dressed in a three-piece powder blue suit and white coppola cap. “I’m for the old traditions.”
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