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Mafia: 100 Years Later, a Bug Reveals the Killer of Joe Petrosino

Giulia Madron

“Apocalypse” in Palermo. Italian Finance Police and Carabinieri unveal the secrets of Cosa Nostra. 91 arrests in total.

Excommunicating Mafia: Pope Bergoglio’s Latest Deed

Bianca Sorminis

On Saturday, during his visit in the southern Italian region of Calabria, Pope Bergoglio did what no other Pope had done before: in a land infested by ‘ndrangheta, the local...

Church and the Mafia

Mons. Gennaro Matino*

The mafia has not always found an enemy in the Church. Pope Francis firmly asks that those in the mafia convert. It is a just appeal to the members of the mafia, but also to a...

Investigating Mafia(s) on a Global Scale

O. C.

In a recent two-day conference at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, dozens of scholars from the U.S., Italy and elsewhere looked into the global mafia phenomenon...

Why MAFIAs? Studying What Many Have Chosen To Ignore

Joseph Sciorra

APRIL 25 & 26 AT THE JOHN D. CALANDRA ITALIAN AMERICAN INSTITUTE. A two-day symposium involving historians and criminologists, sociologists, literary and film critics, as well...

Mobsters in Sin City

Laura E. Ruberto

The Las Vegas Mob Museum doesn’t know what to do with all those Italian American gangsters everyone loves to talk about so much.

Mobsters in Sin City

Laura E. Ruberto

The Las Vegas Mob Museum doesn’t know what to do with all those Italian American gangsters everyone loves to talk about so much.

Pope Francis to Mafiosi: "On My Knees, I Ask You to Convert"

Judith Harris

In a moving homily in a Roman church Friday, Pope Francis addressed family members of the Italian victims of organized crime here in Italy. "I ask you on my knees to...

Is the Mafia Responsible for JFK's Death?

Natasha Lardera

Questions are raised and answered in Stefano Vaccara's book Carlos Marcello, The Man Behind the JFK Assassination, recently presented at Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimo'.

Do We Know Who Killed JFK? The Mafia Role Reconsidered

N.L.

Book Presentation : "Carlos Marcello,The Man Behind the JFK Assassination" at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU). February 26, 6.00 p.m. The author, Stefano Vaccara, in...

International Hero: Giovanni Falcone from Memories to the Future

Rosario Pollicino

On December 1st The Center for Italian Studies at Stony Brook University organized a conference in commemoration of the Italian Judge Giovanni Falcone, who was killed in 1992 in...

Falcone Remembered Amid (Mostly Un)friendly Fire

Judith Harris

May 23 marks the 21st anniversary of the murder of the anti-Mafia Judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife Francesca Morvillo and their three bodyguards, blown up by 500 kilos of dynamite...

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