Rome, April 21 (LaPresse) – "This is a painful moment of great sorrow for the entire Church. We entrust our beloved Pope Francis to the embrace of the Lord, in the certainty, as he himself taught us, that 'everything is revealed in mercy; everything is resolved in the merciful love of the Father'.” This is what Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, president of the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI), said. “I ask all Churches in Italy to ring the church bells as a sign of mourning and to encourage moments of personal and communal prayer, in communion with one another and with the universal Church," he concluded.