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‘A very Italian problem’: inside the fight against the mafia and corruption at the Winter Olympics
Construction works for Milano Cortina have been a lightning rod for suspected infiltration by organised crime, but anti-mafia groups have adopted an approach that will help future hosts
Early on the morning of 8 October, the Provincial Command of the Carabinieri in Belluno put out a press release announcing three arrests, in the culmination of a year-long investigation they called “Operation Resetâ€. Two of the three were brothers; both were known members of the notorious Lazio Ultras, the Irriducibili, it was stated in the release, and had boasted of having personal ties to former boss Fabrizio Piscitelli, who was murdered in 2019. The crimes the brothers had been arrested on suspicion of had not been committed in Rome, but 400 miles north, in the small alpine ski resort of Cortina d’Ampezzo, high in the Dolomites, and home, for the next three weeks, to the Winter Olympics.
Pope Leo urges Olympic athletes to foster respect, team spirit, sacrifice
Olympic athletes, volunteers, and sporting associations attended Mass in the northern Italian city of Como on Friday, as they prepared for the 2026 Milano Cortina Games.
The XXV Winter Olympic Games kick off next week and run from February 6 to 22 at sites across Lombardy and Northeast Italy.
Pope Leo XIV sent a telegram signed by Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin to Cardinal Oscar Cantoni, Bishop of Como, which was read at Mass on Friday.
The Pope sent his “cordial and best-wishing greeting” to the people of the Vicariate of Bormio and everyone involved in preparing the Milano Cortina Olympics.
He expressed his appreciation for the ancient sporting event that gathers professional and amateur athletes from across the globe every four years to compete in numerous sports.
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Vatican's 'Sports Cross' arrives in Archdiocese of Milan ahead of Olympics
The Vatican “Sports Cross” arrived at the Basilica of San Babila in Milan on Thursday evening, one week ahead of the opening of the Feb. 6–22 Winter Olympic Games in Milan-Cortina, Italy.
Since 2012, the Vatican has entrusted the wooden cross designed and created by British artist Jon Cornwall to dioceses hosting the Summer and Winter Olympics.
“It’s an important gesture,” Bishop Paul Tighe, secretary of the Vatican Dicastery for Culture and Education, told EWTN News reporter Paola Arriaza Flynn. “It’s saying something about the Church’s interest and involvement with the world of sport.”
“We want to celebrate the human spirit that expresses itself in so many ways, including in forms of faith,” he added.
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