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The Pope was making his
speech since the pandemic started. It is not the first
he has made remarks on gossip. In 2016, he warned people not to "fuel the
of gossip" and to resist temptation to spread gossip. He said: "If you get an
...to drop a gossip bomb, bite your
. Hard." Two years later he brought the
of gossip up again. He told worshippers in the Vatican that gossip is
"because the tongue kills, like a
". A visitor to the Vatican agreed. She said: "Gossips are
but scandalmongers and
."
