Good Fella

In television and movies, we tend to glorify the mafia. Well, fuggetaboutit. In real life, if you’re looking for someone to celebrate, consider a man who has spent his life opposing the mafia and running a secret operation that liberates women from the criminal underworld. D. T. Max in The New Yorker: The Priest Who Helps Women in the Mob Escape. “To help such women, Ciotti, who is seventy-nine, has spent the past twenty years creating an informal network of safe houses, burner phones, and coöperative policemen. When he needs an officer or a government official to facilitate someone’s flight, he often makes the request in person, thus avoiding any phone logs or digital traces.”