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Article: John Paul back on road again: Pontiff carries anti-Mafia crusade to Sicily.
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- November 18, 1994
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What's all this talk about the Pope being ill? Put it in the past tense. Beyond any doubt, John Paul was back in top form as he went for the fourth time to the Mafia-infested island of Sicily. If Zagreb in September was his 62nd international trip, the visit to the industrial town of Catania Saturday, Nov. 5, was his 117th visit within Italy.
In Catania he said that Sicily "stands in need of rescue and liberation from the Mafia and from other occult forces." While he was speaking, a dead sheep with its throat cut was laid at the door of Don Gino Sachetti, a prison chaplain. An attached note said: "This is the way you will end." These people are not joking.