Italy’s Avalanches, Earthquakes – and Assisi’s “Springtime Resurrection”

An area newspaper summed it up recently, coining this winter in Italy of snowfalls, earthquakes and avalanches, “a never-ending nightmare.” As I write, 50,000 are without electricity and have been for days and stories of hope mix with stories of tragedies: a woman of 103 years old was safely airlifted by helicopter from her snowed-in…