“I am so disappointed when I meet nuns who are joyless, who may smile with the smile of a flight attendant but not with the smile of joy that comes from within”, he told nuns at the Santa Chiara cloistered convent.

Francis made the remarks on a one-day pilgrimage to Assisi to pray at the shrine of the 13th-Century saint whose name he adopted when elected last March.

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