Zollitsch: "My BMW 740d is NOT a status symbol."

Photo ~ The head of the German Bishops’ Conference, Archbishop Robert Zollitsch during his appearance as the Court jester in Constance. 2012. Photo: AP Still, even as Francis drives around Vatican City …More
Photo ~ The head of the German Bishops’ Conference, Archbishop Robert Zollitsch during his appearance as the Court jester in Constance. 2012. Photo: AP
Still, even as Francis drives around Vatican City in a 20-year-old white Renault clunker gifted by an Italian priest, the head of the German Bishops’ Conference, Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, balked at the idea of giving up his company car, a BMW 740d.
“To me that car is not a status symbol, it is the office I use when I am traveling,” Zollitsch said at a press event in early October, when asked whether he would trade it down.
There are 23 million German Catholics who have declared their faith and by law must pay 8 to 10 percent of their incomes to their respective churches. That brought the Catholic Church $7.1 billion in tax revenue in 2012.
Dr Bobus
His comments remind me of the TV preacher living in a mansion and driving an expensive car who insists that those are not his possessions but God's. Of course, he fails to mention that only he has exclusive
use of them.
Visit Naples, Florida, in the winter and see how many people are driving around non status symbol BMW's. And those who want a car that is even less a status symbol drive a Mercedes.More
His comments remind me of the TV preacher living in a mansion and driving an expensive car who insists that those are not his possessions but God's. Of course, he fails to mention that only he has exclusive
use of them.

Visit Naples, Florida, in the winter and see how many people are driving around non status symbol BMW's. And those who want a car that is even less a status symbol drive a Mercedes.
Fidelium
Take away his BMW and see the real infantile come out.