Clergy have themselves been prosecuted as mafia members and extortionists

Evidence

Other cases include that of four Franciscan friars from Mazzarino in Agrigento. In 1962 they were tried for conspiracy, extortion, and manslaughter; after an initial acquittal at the expense of an innocent gardener, they were retried and finally sentenced to thirteen years’ imprisonment (MacKenzie 1967: 261). — Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia The Business of…, 810

Categorization

• FICTION: The image of a friar convicted of conspiracy, extortion, and manslaughter upends clerical innocence tropes — a corruption arc for a religious character.