'I'd redo' Godfather-style funeral says priest

(ANSA) - Rome, August 21 - A priest criticised for officiating at a Godfather-style funeral in Rome said Friday he would do it again if asked because even a clan boss deserves Christian charity. "Would I red Vittorio Casamonica's funeral? Probably yes, I do my job," Father Giancarlo Manieri told Sky TV. "It wasn't up to me to block the funeral...an exponent of a clan is in any case inside the Church", he said. Casamonica's lavish funeral with a helicopter dropping rose petals onto a horse-drawn cortege as the Godfather theme played has raised a firestorm of criticism.