How should you greet a pope? For centuries, it was Catholic tradition to kiss the papal foot. Nowadays, many faithful choose to bow and kiss the papal ring. Conservative Catholics, who routinely ...

Is Pope Francis kissing goodbye to ring tradition? Pope's ring-kissing controversy not what it seems "It was a simple question of hygiene," Mr Gisotti explained on Thursday, telling reporters that ...

The spokesman noted that the pope does allow individuals to kiss his hand and ring in limited numbers, such as he did with an elderly Italian nun at Wednesday’s general audience when Francis ...

To kiss the ring on the pope’s hand or not to - that is the question. On Monday, when Pope Francis visited a Catholic shrine in Loreto, he repeatedly withdrew his right hand as a long line of ...

Mr Gisotti added that the Pope “likes to embrace people and be embraced by people”, and that he was happy to let people kiss his papal ring in small groups. An extended version of the footage ...

Awori became the first prominent personality in Kenya to kiss the Pope's ring, a ring that was presented to him during his inauguration mass in March 2013 as part of his official regalia.