The “sly Jesuit” Father Rothschild in Waugh’s Vile Bodies rode a motorcycle; Father Vaillant in Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop drove a covered wagon with an altar fastened to the back. And now Pope Francis, the bishop of Rome, is the proud owner of a vintage Renault 4. The compact car (4 speeds, stick shift, 800cc engine) was given to him Saturday by a parish priest in Verona who says he has driven it since 1984 in his pastoral work on behalf of the poor. The car has logged 300,000 kilometers on the roads of northern Italy, or about 186,412 miles.

What will a man who rode the city bus when he was archbishop of Buenos Aires do with a white Renault? Vatican Insider has the full story.