It’s never too late. Archbishop Giovanni Checchinato said to “Repubblica”: “As soon as he has his strength, Father Fedele will be able to return to celebrate Mass in public: he will have my permission”. Good news but useless. The friar has been struggling with tenacity for days in a chamber of the Ark. Perhaps, they should have given him to say put in all these years when he asked for it: he was unjustly accused of an infamous crime and the acquittal had been full and definitive. Why wasn’t it rehabilitated? He just wanted to celebrate the Eucharist, nothing more. An unwritten desire.
The mayor Franz Caruso yesterday visited the friar. «I went to Father Fedele, as a friend and mayor, even before as a lawyer who assumed his defense by supporting it strongly because he was based on concrete and solid acts. So much so that the justice of the courts acquitted him as a man, as a priest, like the humble and simple Franciscan, what he is – underlined Franz Caruso – I went to him to caress him, to testify to him the feelings of an affection and a profound and felt closeness, also on behalf of his city and all the Cosenza, especially of those more fragile and disadvantaged, for whom he has managed to create works of solidarity concrete support, which represent, in all respects, monuments of material and immaterial civilizations. Fedele father – added the mayor Franz Caruso – is loved by everyone. In him we have always recognized a man of very high faith lived with sincerity and spontaneity on the streets of the city ».
