“Let us pray for Italy’s earthquake victims, whom I will visit soon as possible” 

An Ave Maria was said in St. Peter’s Square today for those who, in the blink of an eye, lost everything. At today’s Angelus the Pope said he plans to bring his “fatherly and brotherly embrace” to the people hit by the earthquake that devastated Central Italy. He invited the faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square to pray “for these brothers and si...