Pope Francis calls out nuns with 'vinegar faces'
Pope Francis has called out nuns with 'vinegar faces' and told them to avoid gossip in a bizarre tirade, the Daily Mail reports.
The pope, 88, urged a group of Dominican nuns from the Union of St Catherine of Siena of the Missionaries to 'distance' themselves from tales.
'Gossip kills, gossip poisons. Please, no gossiping among you, none. And to ask this of a woman is heroic but, come on, let's move forward and no gossip', he said in one of his off-the-cuff speeches that are fast becoming part and parcel of his papacy.
'That's not something that helps to attract people. Vinegar is nasty and nuns with a vinegar face, let's not even talk about it', he added.
Pope Francis, who became the leader of the Catholic church in 2013, also urged the nuns not to speak with the Devil.
'The Lord has shown us that he spoke with everyone, except … there was one person that the Lord never spoke with: the Devil.
'Please, speak with everyone except the Devil. The Devil enters the community, he sees the jealousies, all those things that belong to all humans, not just women, everyone, that's where the Devil goes. No dialogue with the Devil, understood? We don't speak with the Devil.'