Pope Francis told young Kenyan
people to reject the "sugar of corruption" during a meeting at
Nairobi's Kasarani's stadium on Friday.
"Don't get a taste for it," the Argentine pontiff said.
"Don't accept this sugar called corruption. Corruption
takes away joy.
"Corrupt people do not live in peace. Corruption is not a
path of life. It's a path of death".
Pope Francis, who will leave Kenya later on Friday and fly
to Uganda for the second part of his Africa trip, admitted that
the Holy See was not immune from the plague of graft.
"Corruption is in all the institutions, corruption is
everywhere, there's corruption in the Vatican too," said the
pope, who will also visit the Central African Republic (CAR)
during this week's trip.
The Argentine pontiff has repeatedly spoken out against
against corruption, including within the Church, since being
elected the head of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics in 2013.
The Vatican administration and its bank have been hit by
several scandals in recent years.
This month it was hit by the so-called VatiLeaks 2 scandal
and the related publication of two books using leaked Holy See
papers documenting alleged waste, mismanagement and lavish
spending by clergymen.
Among the cases to hit the headlines was the 2013 arrest
of prelate Monsignor Nunzio Scarano.
Scarano, the former head of analytic accounts at the Holy
See's asset-management agency APSA, is suspected involvement in
the laundering money through accounts at the Vatican Bank and of
trying to illegally smuggle 20 million euros into Italy for rich
friends.
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