Pope Francis telephones a woman grieving her son aleteia.org
Such misfortunes should not happen,” Pope Francis told a grieving mom by telephone, regarding the car accident in which her son lost his life. The call was reported by the Italian website Vatican Insider on July 29. The pontiff contacted the Italian woman on July 26 after receiving a letter from her.
“Hello, Mrs. Cinzia? It’s Pope Francis …” The call came from an unknown private number that she had already seen pop up on the phone over the previous three days. When she finally answered, the mother of the young Fabrizio Di Bitetto—who died on October 5, 2019, in a road accident in Rome at the age of 21—at first thought it was a bad joke.
However, the pontiff immediately reassured her, saying, “Everyone thinks it’s a joke when I call.”
“The voice was his,” she said to the media…
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