you from the eternal city. yeah, this was very much a covid-scarred pope francis i think we heard from this morning. the pope celebrates his big public mass for christmas the night before on comhristmas eve. then at noon today, he delivered his message to the city and the world. in it, he very much stressed his repeated calls for justice and global access to the vaccines, but beyond that, expressed deep alarm over the social impact of everything that's going on. so women trap add home who are suffering additional abuse, children who are being bullied, elderly people who are isolated alone and afraid, and in response to all of that, he called for a culture of dialogue and encounter that is reaching out to meet people and then engaging them in dialogue, finding out what's on their hearts and minds and trying to be present to them. so all in all, a very pastoral