In Buenos Aires, Francis chose to live in an apartment rather than the archbishop's palace, passed on a chauffeured limousine, took the bus to work and cooked his own meals.

CNN: March 15, 2013 -- Updated 0736 GMT (1536 HKT)

He also passed on a chauffeured limousine, preferring to take the bus with ordinary people, and he cooked his own meals.

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He traveled by bus rather than chauffeured limousine.

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From driving the battered old Commer, with hard benches back and front and his charges sleeping among the amps, he progressed to a tour bus and then to a chauffeured limousine with blacked-out windows, forcing its way through crowds of weeping teenage girls.

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Much has been written about his disdain for earthly comforts -- he prefers the bus to a chauffeur-driven limousine and cooked his own meals until now -- but his activism on behalf of the poor has been just as much a hallmark of his life.

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