Pope Francis has today said that speaking ill of other people and spreading gossip is worse than Covid-19.

The Pope disclosed this at St. Peter’s church while he commenting on a Bible passage about ways people can bring back their erring fellows into the manifold of Christ noted that when people discover others’ mistake, “the first thing we usually do is go and tell someone else about it. Gossip like this closes off the community.”

Francis added that “The great gossip is Satan who always says bad things about people,” and Satan “is a liar who seeks to divide the Church, to drive our brothers apart, so that they are no longer a community.

“Let us make an effort not to be gossips. Speaking ill of people is a plague worse than COVID-19.”