In Sicily no more godparents in baptisms, why was it decided?

The news that some diocese of Sicily have decided, as happens in other parts of Italy, to 'suspend' the figure of godmothers and godparents for the baptisms has also landed on the New York Times.

The American newspaper cites in particular the case of Catania where the ban on godparents would have been decided starting from this weekend in October. "It's an experiment," the vicar general of Catania explained to the NYT, Monsignor Salvatore Genchi.

The New York newspaper also heard some families opposed to this decision. The Sicilian Church, on the other hand, is essentially in agreement on the fact that the figure of the godfather has lost for the most part its value as an accompaniment to the faith and is instead a way to forge relationships with a family or a clan.

The article also mentions the Calabrian bishop Giuseppe Fiorini Morosini who reports that in 2014, when he was bishop of Reggio Calabria, he asked the Vatican, to oppose the ties of the 'Ndrangheta, to be able to suspend the presence of godparents at the sacraments.

The then Substitute of the Secretariat of State, the card. Angelo Becciu, he replied - according to what Morosini tells the New York Times - that all the bishops of Calabria had to agree first. And therefore at that moment it was not possible to make a decision to that effect. Source: ANSA.