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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