Does the pope prevent the ring from kissing him?

Pope Francis is today at the sanctuary of Loreto, where he arrived by helicopter from the Vatican. During the meeting with the faithful who came to greet him, he was able to see how the pontiff avoided being kissed by the ring.

As the Vaticanist Edward Pentin recalls on Twitter, it is not the first time we observe the reluctance of the Holy Father to embrace the ring, but this time, the pontiff's effort to l & rsquo; To avoid is extremely striking.

Seeing the entire sequence of the greeting, one could infer that it is a question of time or pope's fatigue. It is a simple handshake faster than kissing the ring. Before the piece of the video that circulates, we can see that the Pope greets dozens and dozens of people before and that some embrace the ring and it offers no resistance.

It's at one point that he begins to pull out his hand and tries to avoid kissing the ring.

In Loreto today, @ Pontifex he does not want the faithful lining up to greet him to kiss his ring and take his hand. This is something you have done fairly regularly during his pontificate, but not as insistently as today. https://t.co/uwrrwpsAfp

– Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) March 25, 2019

You can see the minute 59 sequence of the video: