There are some very odd videos of the Pope online (see this one, in which he responds with anger when some overexcited Mexican pilgrims pull him into the crowd.
But his latest weird, gone-viral video shows Francis pulling his hand away as a long line of Italian worshippers try to kiss his ring after a religious service earlier this week in the town of Loreto. Apparently, he doesn’t want to lord it over his flock in a way reminiscent of emperors and absolute monarchs of yore: but in that case, why hasn’t he simply made an announcement to the effect that ring-kissers aren’t welcome, and that he doesn’t want that kind of no-holds-barred adulation, which seems to belong to another century (and, like so much of what’s outdated at the Vatican, not even the last one). He has, after all, been pope for six years now: long enough, one might have thought, to lay down some guidelines about how he expects to be treated.
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