From: David N. Barnett 

On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 11:35:56 -0600, Gene McAloon
 wrote in message
:

| I hadn't heard that the pope moves around the Vatican in a bulletproof bubble.
| When he visits Italy he probably does, but those are well-publicized trips with
| known routes and granted he is not very popular there.  I am surprised the Rome
| police don't ticket him for obstructing traffic. It wasn't too many years
ago | when the Italian authorities were dead set on arresting the head of
the Vatican
| bank if he dared step out of the Vatican.

There are two Pope-Mobiles.  Inside the Vatican, he is transported in an
open Fiat Campagnola (sort of an Italian Jeep), but on his peregrinations
he is enclosed in a bulletproof Mercedes M-Class.

The Papal Fiat, haha...

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