A total of 67 Italian Catholic priests have died after being
infected with the novel coronavirus.
The Avvenire
newspaper revealed this on Wednesday, adding that the youngest of those listed
by the Catholic Church-affiliated paper was 53.
"Priests get
sick and die like everybody else, maybe even more than the rest," the
Avvenire wrote.
The paper said 22 of
the fatalities were in the Bergamo diocese, at the heart of the outbreak not
far from the financial centre Milan.
Pope Francis asked
priests "to have the courage to go out and see the sick" when the
pandemic was gathering strength across the country on March 10.
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