Mafia insiders debate whether priests can be men of honor

Evidence

Tommaso Buscetta, too, met Father Coppola, but was unsure whether he was a man of honor. To the judge who asked him, “Can a priest ever be a man of honor?” Buscetta replied ambiguously saying, “I met him personally and to me he really was a priest” (TB-GdS, April 8, 1986). — Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia The Business of…, 812

Categorization

• QUESTION: What exactly does Buscetta’s evasion signal — that man-of-honor status and priesthood are mutually exclusive, or that Coppola wasn’t inducted? Worth digging into the original testimony.