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Pope tells Vatican bureaucrats to stop gossipy conflicts

by Nicole Winfield
| December 21, 2020 4:06 AM

ROME (AP) — 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.

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