Benjamin Franklin once said that he had studied the problem of achieving perfection through mastery of a set of virtues but decided it was impossible because if he ever master humility he would be immensely proud of himself and thus ruin it.
I think Francis takes immense pride in his own humility. He's very showy about it, even when it makes no actual sense. The only people he would lose contact with by wearing a bullet proof vest under his robes would be people trying to shoot him. But no, good chance to brag about how much of a man of the people he is.
Yep, he’s into virtue signaling just like any other leftist.