Papal President lent for Lent

摘要

Some perfectly true stories just have to be held over for the May issue each year in case you think they might be an April Fool. This is one of them, which comes from Hugh Dougherty who says that W562 RSG, a former Lothian Buses Dennis Trident/Plaxton President in the fleet of Accrington-based Moving People, was hired to the Catholic Diocese of Salford to act as a mobile confessional throughout Lancashire during Lent. It was branded The Mercy Bus and its use was the brainchild of Fr Frankie Mulgrew, son of comedian Jimmy Cricket, who also took some pictures of the bus to Rome to secure approval from Pope Francis when he got himself photographed along with the pontiff in St Peter's Square. After all, the Pope's image is among those that appear on the side of the President.