Pontiff uses annual Christmas speech to call for values such as humanity,accountability and humility after year of scandals in VaticanPope Francis presented the Catholic church’s bureaucracy with a list of “needed virtues” including humanity, accountability and humility, and following a year in which the Vatican was shaken by a number of tall-profile scandals.
The annual Christmas speech delivered by the 79-year-old pontiff was remarkable in one respect: although he acknowledged that some of the “diseases” of the church’s ruling body in Rome had been on full display during the year,he struck a far more conciliatory tone before the crowd of senior church officials than final year, signalling a possible softening in his approach.
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Source: theguardian.com