Better pray this clunker doesn’t break down.
Pope Francis recently rolled out his not-so-new, mini-Popemꦚobile — a shabby-looking 1984 Rena🍌ult 4.
The no-nonsense, austere pontiff 𒆙said he plans to drive the 190,000-mile heap when he’s not forced to be inside a secure limousine.
The beat-up Renault was donated to Poꦓpe Francis by a priest from northern Itඣaly.
The Rev. Renzo Zocca said he🎀 used it to visit poor parishioners and drive children to summer cam🐎ps.
The p⛄apal-white-colored, four-door is a manual shift thaꦍt sports a new engine.
“The♑ pop💧e intends to drive it,” said the Rev. Ciro Benedettini, a Vatican spokesman.
Zocca, 79, said he took a spin in the jalopy with Francis on Saturday💧. The pontiff told Zocca that he used to own a Renault 4, years ago, in his native Argent𝓰ina.
Francis plans to use it for short commutes within Vatiﷺcan grounds.
Zocca said he could already tell Pope Francis’ security detail wasn’t thrilled with the pontiff’s desire to zip around in a 29ꦏ-year-old wreck.
“The security guard standing next t🃏o me was really worried because he knew that from now on he’ll be going around the Vatican in my car,” Zocca said.
And if Pope Francis wants to venture outside the Vatican this winter, he’ll be ꦓwell equipped.
“I left him some sno🌱w tires in the boot,” Zocca said. “You never know.”
As a cardinal in Buenos A🍸ires, Pope Francis lived in a small apartmen🐻t and regularly rode public transportation.
Pope Fr𓆏ancis vowed to skip luxuries enjoy💙ed by his predecessors to encourage austerity within the Catholic Church.
Zocca said h🍷e’s been moved by the pope’s drive to serve the poor and lead by example.
The priest thought his gift of a very used car would be the perfect s💙ymbol for Pope Francis’ vision for ♓“a Church for the poor.”
“What b𓂃etter than my old Renault 4?” he told the Italian magazine Famiglia Criౠstiana.
