If the Church does finally condemn Berlusconi for moral turpitude, however, it will be missing far better reasons to repudiate him. To cite just one: although the facts are still not clear and the full truth may never be known, Berlusconi’s name has recently emerged in connection with reported murky “negotiations” between Cosa Nostra and Italian government officials in 1992-93, when two leading anti-Mafia prosecutors, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, were murdered in spectacular bomb attacks in Sicily and three “show bombings” killed eleven people in Milan, Florence and Rome.
