Pope tells Vatican bureaucrats to stop gossipy conflicts
by Nicole Winfield, The Associated Press
Posted Dec 21, 2020 6:39 am EDT
Last Updated Dec 21, 2020 at 6:42 am EDT
ROME Pope Francis urged Vatican bureaucrats on Monday to stop their gossipy, self-absorbed conflicts, issuing another tough-love Christmas message at the end of a year marked by the coronavirus pandemic and a financial scandal at the Holy See.
Francis gathered his cardinals, bishops and Vatican prelates for his annual Christmas greeting in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace. In past years, Francis has used the occasion to deliver a brutal dressing-down of the clerical court that surrounds the papacy, once denouncing the “spiritual Alzheimer’s” of some Holy See clerics.
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Pope Francis promised Vatican employees on Monday that none of them will lose their jobs because of the coronavirus pandemic, which has severely damaged Vatican finances. You are the most important thing here. No one is to left out, no one will lose their jobs, Francis told workers and their children at a special audience held to exchange Christmas greetings.
The pandemic has wreaked havoc with the Vatican s finances, forcing it to dip into reserve funds and implement some of the toughest cost-control measures ever in the tiny city-state. No one should suffer from the ugly economic effects of this pandemic.We have to work harder to resolve this problem, which is not easy.
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The Vatican concluded that it is morally acceptable to receive COVID-19 vaccines that have used cell lines from aborted fetuses in the research and production process when ethically irreproachable vaccines aren t available to the public.
But it stressed that the licit uses of such vaccines does not and should not in any way imply that there is a moral endorsement of the use of cell lines proceeding from aborted fetuses.
In its statement, the Vatican explained that obtaining vaccines that do not pose an ethical dilemma is not always possible.
The Vatican concluded that it is morally acceptable to receive COVID-19 vaccines that have used cell lines from aborted fetuses