LOL. It's like a game. Are you faster than the Pope?
Oooooooookaaaay? Has he done this before? Surely this isn't the first time people have tried to kiss the ring.Vatican spokesman Alessandro Gisotti said that Francis was concerned about hygiene when, after greeting dozens of people in a lengthy receiving line, he began pulling his hand away to discourage people from kissing his ring.
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“The Holy Father told me that the motivation was very simple: hygiene,” Gisotti told reporters. “He wants to avoid the risk of contagion for the people, not for him.”
Guardian
Oooooookaaaay.Gisotti said Francis was more than happy to receive the ring-kiss in small groups, where the spread of germs would be more contained, as he did on Wednesday when a handful of people lined up at the end of his general audience to greet him.
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Francis is known for gleefully embracing babies given to him to kiss, and sipping from mate gourds offered to him by strangers when he’s out and about on his popemobile.
On Wednesday the pope allowed nuns and priests to kiss his papal ring during his weekly audience in St Peter’s Square.
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