In a hard-hitting Christmas speech to Vatican officials, the Pope has warned them to watch out for the devil that “lurks among us”, calling it an “elegant demon” that appears with a bunch of flowers.
The Pope has often used his Christmas address to the cardinals and priests working at the Vatican to admonish them for their worldly sins, and this year he did not disappoint.
He told the prelates not to feel holier than thou just because they worked “in the service of the Holy See, at the heart of the Church”. He added: “Precisely for this reason, we could easily fall into the temptation of thinking we are safe, better than others, no longer in need of conversion.”
