Author Topic: Kissing the ring of the Pope (Read 1212 times)

InfiniteFaith · « **on:** January 11, 2012, 12:43:43 PM »

What is the point? Please review the following article and express your opinion on the matter. This was just brought to my attention.

http://ivarfjeld.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/kissing-an-gold-idol-on-the-ring-of-the-pope/

parentsfortruth · « **Reply #1 on:** January 11, 2012, 12:52:30 PM »

You know that people don't just kiss the pope's ring. Personally, I've kissed Bishop DeGaleretta's ring. It's a sign of respect. It has nothing to do with idolatry.

Sigismund · « **Reply #2 on:** January 11, 2012, 06:27:29 PM »

The article is not even written in correct English. It is silly. It is a sign of respect for the office of a bishop. In the Eastern Church, people kiss the hands of priests sometimes too. When you consider what those hands do for our salvation, it hardly seems inappropriate. Also I doubt that Pope Benedict or any other pope has ever forced anyone to kiss his ring.

RomanCatholic1953 · « **Reply #3 on:** January 11, 2012, 06:50:25 PM »

The kissing the rings of Bishops, and the Pope is a tradition that goes back a very long
time.
Check out these photos.

Pyrrhos · « **Reply #4 on:** January 12, 2012, 12:54:49 AM »

The proper (or traditional) etiquette in a papal audience would be to kiss the Pope´s feet, followed by a kissing of the ring of the fisherman.

Of course, basically the whole court ceremony (and even the name "Papal Court") was abolished by Paul VI.