The
Catholic Church has many problems today.
There is declining membership around the world, pedophile priests and
more. It’s a good thing that the Pope
would take time out of his busy schedule and speak with young trainee priests
and nuns. I’m sure many topics were
covered, but the one that Reuters news agency reported on concerned cars. It appears the Pope has issues with priests
and nuns driving nice cars.
The Pope is quoted in the Reuters news story as
saying “It hurts me when I see a priest or a nun with the latest model car, you
can't do this.”
I
never would have guessed the head of the Catholic Church would have an
emotional response to vehicles driven my members of the clergy.
“Don’t
drive that Mercedes, the Holy Father will be very hurt.”
“How
about I use my Audi?”
“He
will be depressed.”
“How
about my pick-up truck?”
“He
will ashamed.”
“My
Hybrid?”
“He’ll
be okay with it if it’s used, dented and has over 100,000 miles on it.”
“Okay.”
The Reuter’s story provides another quote from the
Pope.
"A car is necessary to do a lot of work, but
please, choose a more humble one. If you like the fancy one, just think about
how many children are dying of hunger in the world," he said.
You
would think the places that sell cars would seize this marketing
opportunity. I think people should
consider changing the name of their business to something like “Humble Holy Cars.” They could have offered a line of Pope
approved humble holy cars for all the driving needs of nuns and priests.”
Can
you just see a man with a thick moustache and comb over hair walking among the
cars in a car lot? He’s wearing a
brightly checkered sports coat and has on dark pants. When he sees some members of the clergy
looking at cars he immediately goes over to them.
“Aye,
whatcha lookin’ for? We got us some of
the most humble cars known to man in this lot.
Just look around and all you see is humbleness everywhere.”
“If
we don’t buy a humble car, the Pope will be hurt.”
“I
know just what you’re saying. If I don’t
sell a car my boss is hurt. So which of
these humble beauties do you want to try?”
“What
would you suggest?”
“How
about this BMW? It was once driven to
see the Pope speak on a TV screen at a stadium.”
“If
we buy that car we’ll always be thinking of children dying of hunger around the world.”
“If
you don’t buy it, you can think about my starving children dying of hunger
around the world.”
“We’ll
take it.”
The Reuters story concludes “The ANSA news agency
said the pope's car of choice for moving around the walled Vatican City was a
compact Ford Focus.”
(Sarcasm
Alert) Going forward Ford will refer to the Ford Focus as the car made humble
by the Pope.
I
can honestly say that a professional news agency should have more to do with
the Pope than publishing stories about vehicle preferences. I don’t know what’s worse. That the story was published or that I read
it and commented on it.
Source
Reuters News Story
Source
Reuters News Story
