As pope, he uses a blue Ford Focus inside the Vatican walls, and he has made a statement on all his foreign trips by shunning fancy, bullet-proof SUVs and opting instead for modest Fiats or KIAs.
Some of the funds raised from the auction will go to rebuilding homes, churches and public buildings in Iraq’s Nineveh Plains that were devastated during three years of fighting by the ISIS.
The Vatican said the aim is to allow Christians who were forced to flee Nineveh ‘to finally return to their roots and recover their dignity.’
Other funds will go to charities that help women who are trafficked and forced into prostitution, and those that provide medical care in Africa.
The Sant’Agata Bolognese-based Lamborghini is owned by Germany’s Volkswagen.
