Josh Hafner

USA TODAY

As if Pope Francis, the selfie savant and former nightclub bouncer who drives a used car, wasn’t the chillest Vicar of Christ of all time, consider this: He’s reportedly been throwing pizza parties for Rome’s homeless for weeks.

Rome empties out each summer, as The Vatican Insider reports , with some of the soup kitchens closing and volunteers leaving the city on vacations. That leaves those living on the Italian capital’s streets more vulnerable than usual.

So each day for the past two weeks, the pope has gathered groups of Rome’s homeless for an afternoon of swimming followed by dinner at a pizzeria.

Bishiop Konrad Krajewski, who oversees the Vatican’s charitable funds, told the Insider that a Vatican van transports about 10 of the city’s homeless to a beach on Italy’s western coast. Krajewski drives, he said, and guests are given new swimsuits and towels as music plays on the radio.

The groups make for a unique sight on the beach, Krajewski said, “since those who live on the street have very dark faces because of the sun, but bodies as white as milk.”

After an afternoon of sunbathing and swimming, the trip ends at a pizzeria with a meal provided by Francis. Krajewski noted that the beach-and-pizza trips continue alongside other regular efforts to feed the city’s homeless.

“We certainly are not saving the world with some of these initiatives, we are not solving the problems of the homeless in Rome, but at least we are restoring to them a little dignity,” he told Vatican Insider.

At least 100 people found camped out near the St. Peter’s area of Rome have already taken part in the trips, the site reported.

While he provides the pizza, the pope is too recognizable to accompany the groups to a restaurant. Francis told an Argentinian newspaper last year that he longs for the days when he could waltz into a pizza shop and order up a pie.

Delivery to the Vatican, he said, just isn’t the same.

[h/t Munchies]

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