The Archbishop of Naples, Monsignor Domenico Battaglia, has ordered the removal of two paintings from the Rectory of Maria Santissima della Cintura e della Consolazione in Marano.
The prints, depicting Our Lady of the Rosary of Pompeii and Saint Rita, had been donated by the boss Lorenzo Nuvoletta, of the eponymous Camorra clan, who died in 1994. The paintings were accompanied by a plaque reading: "To the devotion of Lorenzo Nuvoletta." The archbishop ordered their replacement with new images of the same subject, "so that faith may continue to walk with the hearts and legs of those who nurture these wholesome devotions."
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The decision, as stated in a note from the Archbishop's Curia of Naples, was taken "so as not to disturb the faithful themselves by disorienting them with actions that could even remotely be traced back to an ambiguity between the Gospel and life, to reaffirm the primacy of conscience, enlightened by faith, which invites us to love truth and justice" and "to give an unequivocal example of incompatibility between the paths of the Gospel and those of iniquity at any level".
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