How fitting that the Successor to the Pope who renounced the Papal Throne should himself so energetically reject also the superficial trappings of that Throne.
All in the name of boldly following the Lord. It's the same rubric of all the saints, even popes!
John 21:18 amen amen dico tibi cum esses iunior cingebas te et ambulabas ubi volebas cum autem senueris extendes manus tuas et alius te cinget et ducet quo non vis
