“The idea of Catholicism as I understand it is an idea of equality, fraternity and solidarity and this is a principle that must exist in a courthouse, beneath any provision that we adopt and each of us have strong awareness.” The president of the Court of Marsala, Alessandra Camassa, said this during the visit to the
Palace of Justice in via del Fante of the bishop of Mazara, Angelo Giurdanella.
“Here – added Camassa – we fight with men, we have to deal with sensitivities, pain, difficulties. What comes here is the painful humanity that must be respected, considered and which requires a certain sensitivity. Your moral help – she concluded addressing the bishop – will help us to make our sensitivity stronger and for this we thank you very much”. The prosecutor Fernando Asaro, however, referred to the name of the bishop’s visit (“Sub tutela dei”) which attracted a
motto adopted from a young age by the magistrate Rosario Livatino. “For us – said the head of the Prosecutor’s Office – Livatino is a point of reference within the judiciary, both from an ethical and professional point of view. A reference for how he lived, how he died and now for his path to beatification.”
Bishop Giurdanella, however, stated: “Here we combine justice and the grammar of the human, which is the ABC of our relationships. Typically, when you enter the Court, you enter with a sense of fear. Today, here, we experience that inside this place where the laws are respected there is, however, also a great humanity”. The visit took place on the initiative of the Council of the Bar Association, the Court and the Prosecutor’s Office. “Monsignor Giurdanella – explains a note from the press office of the Diocese – he was welcomed by the president of the Court Alessandra Camassa and then stopped in the atrium of the building to meet magistrates and employees of the Court and the Prosecutor’s Office”. To them, the bishop said: “Here justice is not only administered, sanctions and penalties are given, but the Court in a territory has a strong educational and evocative value.” Monsignor Giurdanella then visited the courtrooms, the nursery, the listening rooms for minors and then in the prosecutor’s office, accompanied by the chief prosecutor Fernando Asaro, he met the individual deputy prosecutors.
