Thursday 12 September 2013

Leadership by Example? Pope Francis Gets A USED CAR


According to Catholic News Agency, Pope Francis expanded his garage with the addition of a 29-year-old sedan with 186,000 miles as his personal car.

The car above, 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. (See more pictures after the cut)



On Saturday, Zocca and about 100 well-wishers delivered the Renault4 — after a tune-up to an engine that made 34 hp on a good day — to Pope Francis, who took the keys and climbed behind the wheel, telling Zocca he had driven the same model while living in Argentina and "it had never let him down.”





Source: Yahoo

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