The speech naturally revolved around the pandemic, and he highlighted the difficulties of the unemployed and the situation of women who are abused during isolation in the home.
"We can not let closed nationalism stop us from living as the family we are, let the virus of individualism make us indifferent to the suffering of others," the pope said according to the news agency EFE's minutes.
Highlighted South America
As usual, it became an exposition of the world's accidents when the church leader sought to evoke compassion for the many who suffer in Venezuela, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, Ukraine.
The pope, who was born in Argentina, also tried to instill hope in the speech "for the American continent, which has been hit particularly hard by the coronavirus, which has so greatly intensified the suffering that oppresses it, often exacerbated by the effects of corruption and drug trafficking," reports Corriere della Serra.