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Anti-Mafia priest's death raises questions: Pope did not travel to Palermo for funeral. (Fr. Giuseppe Puglisi)
National Catholic Reporter
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October 8, 1993|
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Pope did not travel to Palermo for funeral
GENOA, Italy -- On Sept. 15, his 56th birthday, Fr. Guiseppe Puglisi, the pastor of San Gaetano Parish on the out-skirts of Palermo, was murdered in front of his home with a single bullet at point-blank range.
His parish in Brancaccio, one of the poorest districts of the city, has long been under the firm control of organized-crime bosses. When Puglisi arrived at the parish three years ago he started organizing its inhabitants to resist the Mafia's influence.
Puglisi had been offered other parishes by the ...
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