Jobs are safe in Vatican, says Pope

Pope Francis said that employees in the Vatican have job safety during the COVID-19 pandemic. This statement was made while the Pope gave out Christmas wishes to the state’s residents. 

“You are the ones who count the most,” the Pope said to the Vatican staff while following all necessary social distancing protocols in the cavernous Paul VI Audience Hall.

“No one should lose their jobs or suffer the brutal economic consequences of this pandemic,” Pope Francis said.

The Vatican has been paying the employed citizens their full-time wages even after facing a significant loss in revenues throughout the pandemic, especially after the closure of the Vatican Museums. 

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This depicts the Pope’s strategy on the pandemic and its health and economic implications. 

“The pandemic has exposed the plight of the poor and the great inequality that reigns in the world,” he had said during a weekly Wednesday audience in August.

He also interestingly specified the existence of a larger virus and described it as social injustice, inequality of opportunity, marginalisation and the lack of protection for the weakest.

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Earlier Monday, the Argentine pope told the Curia, the Holy See’s central government: “This is the Christmas of the pandemic, of the health, economic, social and even ecclesial crisis that has indiscriminately struck the whole world.”