Italians pray for papacy to come home after almost 50 years

For centuries, Italians took it for granted that the Chair of St Peter would be occupied by one of their own. After all, the Vatican is in Rome and Italy has been enmeshed with the Catholic Church for two millennia. But a 455-year-old Italian stranglehold on the papacy came to an abrupt halt in 1978 with the death of Pope John Paul I, who died afte...