Italian MP: Pope’s death leaves sorrow in Italy

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00:00Deborah, what does the death of the Pope mean for Italy?

00:04Well, it means a lot. It means a great sorrow. It means a great absence. It means a great

00:11transformation and a great change. We hadn't lived something like that until 2005. So it's been a

00:22long, long time now. And again, it will be a time of great concentration. You know,

00:28we consider Italy to be the cradle, the moral, geographical, cultural cradle of Catholicism.

00:35So when a Pope dies, it's always, always something unifying, very deeply felt by the whole Italian

00:46population, believers or not believers. It's a moment of great, great transformation for Italy.