Archbishop Mario Delpini thanked Mattarella for his “wise, encouraging word, capable of creating consensus” and underlined how in such difficult moments – in a land that has had “its wounds, its too many deaths, too many sick “and who has known” the humiliations of impotence “and also” the pettiness of the quarrels, the banalities of the speeches, the spurious contrasts “- we need” an alliance, a chorus to face together the challenges and tears of this time ”