Leonard Pitts: Surrounded by ordinary heroism

My editor groaned when I told her the subject of this column. In a moment, you'll be groaning, too.Last week in this space, I opined upon “the quiet death of an Italian priest.” Giuseppe Berardelli was 72 and died of the novel coronavirus. This happened, I reported, after he gave away his respirator, which had been bought for him by his parishioners. I wrote that he insisted it be given to a younger patient who was struggling to breathe.Well, Father Berardelli did, indeed, die of the