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Pope warns Vatican staff on gossiping and backstabbing
The Independent
|December 22, 2024
Pope Francis used his annual Christmas greetings to tell Vatican bureaucrats to stop speaking ill of one another, warning that gossip is an "evil".
A wheezing and congested-sounding pontiff, who just turned 88, urged the prelates instead to speak well of one another and undertake a humble examination of their consciences in the Christmas holiday season.
"A church community lives in joyful and fraternal harmony to the extent that its members walk in the life of humility, renouncing evil thinking and speaking ill of others," Francis said yesterday. "Gossip is an evil that destroys social life, sickens people's hearts and leads to nothing. The people say it very well: gossip is zero." "Beware of this," he added.
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