Pope Francis is well known for shunning the glitz and the glam that goes with the office of Pope. But, in case there was any doubt, he doubled down on this stance in his recent autobiography “Hope”. His comments on how he prefers his orthopaedic footwear to the iconic papal red shoes much favoured by Pope Benedict XVI made the Catholic news headlines last week. In a similar vein, in his autobiography, the Pope reflects, “I didn’t want the velvet mozzetta, nor the linen rochet…They were not for me. Two days later they told me I would have to change my trousers, wear white ones. They made me laugh. ‘I don’t want to be an ice-cream seller,’ I said. And I kept my own.”