CARENNO – The circle of contagion around the Rev. Angelo Riva couldn’t have been tighter. Within two weeks of sitting with his parents and a fellow priest at lunch, the 53-year-old Catholic priest was grieving the deaths of both his father and the colleague who assisted him at three mountain parishes above Lake Como in northern Italy.
As Easter approached, Riva prepared for his mother to die, too. ‘’All of this has put in my life in crisis. It is truly an inner revolution,’’ said Riva. ‘’It has created a crisis with respect to my life, with respect to myself, with respect to my faith.'' No one can say for sure how or when the virus arrived in Carenno, a mountain village northeast of Milan with a population of 1,500 and the largest of