From Il Post:
In 2018, the Polish archbishop Henryk Hoser, an envoy of Pope Francis to Medjugorje and who died in 2021, said in a homily speaking of good and evil:
“On the one hand we meet thousands of young people who use the sacrament of penance and reconciliation, on the other hand we must be aware that due to the massive influx of pilgrims this place is penetrated by mafias, including that of the Neapolitan, which is counting on profits” .
Those words aroused controversy and strong protests also by many Neapolitan faithful. The sentences pronounced by Hoser referred to what was emerging at the time from an investigation conducted by the prosecutor of Santa Maria Capua Vetere on the abusive exorcist Michele Barone, a priest from Casapesenna, in the Caserta area, who was arrested on charges of mistreating and abusing sexually three women and girls, one of which is thirteen, during sessions of prayers and exorcistic rites. The investigation revealed that Barone, a cousin of a former Camorra member of the Zagaria clan, had organized religious trips to Medjugorje both from Campania and from Ireland. [SD note: This is a skeptical secular report. The Vatican Commission authenticated the first week of apparitions.]