Irish Sunday Mirror

Pope’s trip to Portaloo gets wee tweeted

- BY KAREN ROCKETT

POPE Francis stunned residents in a poor neighbourh­ood by popping into a portable loo.

The 80-year-old pontiff stopped to spend a penny during a tour of Milan’s working-class district.

Father Antonio Spadaro tweeted a snap of him emerging from it saying he “uses a chemical toilet like ordinary people”.

The Pope visited three families, including the home of Mihoual Abdel Karim.

Moroccan Muslim migrant Mihoual said: “It was like having a friend in the house.”

The Pope was on his way to visit an elderly couple when he spotted the loo put there for the crowds – and dived straight in.

The Pope later had lunch with around 100 prisoners at the city’s San Vittore jail.

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