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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI bet no US president will be allowed to do this...
No way, the secret service will let him/her do something like this.
Pope Francis shuns papal limousine
http://www.newsday.co.zw/2013/03/14/pope-francis-shuns-papal-limousine/
Shortly after his election on Wednesday night, Pope Francis shunned the papal limousine and rode on the last shuttle bus with other cardinals to go back to a residence inside the Vatican for a meal.
That showed his humble side, according to New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who gave an insiders look into the hours immediately after Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina was elected.
Dolan said most of the cardinals had taken buses back to their residence in the Vatican and had lined up to greet the new pope as he arrived for their last meal as a group.
They were expecting him to arrive in the limousine that they had seen waiting for him at the base of the Apostolic Palace.
And as the last bus pulls up, guess who gets off? Its Pope Francis. I guess he told the driver Thats OK, Ill just go with the boys, Dolan told reporters at the American seminary in Rome, the North American College.
Inside the residence, during the dinner, Dolan said the new pope showed his humorous side.
We toasted him and when he toasted us he said: May God forgive you, which brought the house down, he said.
That showed his humble side, according to New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who gave an insiders look into the hours immediately after Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina was elected.
Dolan said most of the cardinals had taken buses back to their residence in the Vatican and had lined up to greet the new pope as he arrived for their last meal as a group.
They were expecting him to arrive in the limousine that they had seen waiting for him at the base of the Apostolic Palace.
And as the last bus pulls up, guess who gets off? Its Pope Francis. I guess he told the driver Thats OK, Ill just go with the boys, Dolan told reporters at the American seminary in Rome, the North American College.
Inside the residence, during the dinner, Dolan said the new pope showed his humorous side.
We toasted him and when he toasted us he said: May God forgive you, which brought the house down, he said.
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I bet no US president will be allowed to do this... (Original Post)
srican69
Mar 2013
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NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)1. He seems like a very good man.
His episcopal motto is "Lowly, and yet chosen."
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)2. I don't think he will be either
at least not for very long. I'll bet that his guards were shitting bricks the whole way?
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)3. The travel was all within the Vatican
it is not like he rode around on a city bus