HAVANA: Pope Francis abandoned his prepared speech Sunday at an evening prayer service in Havana to urge the clergy to embrace poverty and never forget "the most abandoned."

His face flushing in the tropical heat, he delved into a stern and lively impromptu address to hundreds of local priests, nuns and seminarians at the Cuban capital's cathedral on the second day of his visit to the Americas' only communist-ruled nation.

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