POPE, COSSIGA’S DEATH IS A LOSS FOR THE WHOLE OF ITALY
(AGI) Rome – The Pope called Francesco Cossiga a Catholic statesman, committed to the common good, mourned by the whole of Italy. Expressing his condolences in a message to the ex president’s children, Benedict XVI commented: ‘It is a grave loss for the entire Italian nation’. In a message to President Napolitano, the Pope recalled, ‘this illustrious Catholic statesman and eminent scholar, with affection and gratitude,” describing him as, “fully committed to the promotion of the common good’.