Pope Francis has already made headlines for choosing
a five-year-old Ford Focus as his preferred papal transportation, part of a
public emphasis on thrift and poverty.
But last weekend, the pontiff expanded his garage with the
addition of a 29-year-old sedan with 186,000 miles as his personal car.
According to the
Catholic News Agency and others, the car, a 1984 Renault4, was donated to
the pope by Italian pastor Renzo Zocca. Zocca had written Pope Francis earlier
this year, offering to donate the car which Zocca had used for decades while
working in impoverished neighborhoods of Verona, as a symbol of their shared
concern for fighting poverty.
A month ago, Francis called Zocca and asked why he didn't
just donate the car to someone else who needed it. “I answered that this car
had already given much to the poor and now it had to go to the pope," Zocca
said.
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