The Pope Gets a Used Car

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In line with Pope Francis’s many gestures celebrating simplicity, he accepted this week from a priest in northern Italy the gift of a used stick-shift 1984 Renault with 186,000 miles on it. The Vatican says Francis intends to drive it himself and that he does know how.

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