Topic: Pope breaks with protocol by bowing to Queen Rania of Jordan

[pspyrock]

kindly lock if this is a repost



Humility at its finest.








nauna yata yung photo sa itaas kesa dito...



http://www.news.com.au/technology/pope-francis-goes-viral-with-selfie/story-e6frfro0-1226708323918

But Francis, who has made the forgetting of formalities a trademark of his papacy, bowed when he met a smiling Rania as she visited the Vatican with her husband King Abdullah II on Thursday.

"Up until the 19th century visitors would kiss the pope's shoes, and the tradition is still that all visitors, women included, bow to him, but Francis behaves as he did before he became pope and is not interested in protocol," a senior Vatican official told The Daily Telegraph.

It is not the first time the Pope has eschewed formality when receiving visitors.

When Cristina Kirchner, Argentina's president, met him in March, a day before his formal inauguration, he gave her a kiss after she presented him with a gourd for mate, the traditional Argentine tea.

"Never in my life has a Pope kissed me!", Mrs Kirchner said afterwards.

When she met the pope in July, Brazilian's first female president, Dilma Rousseff took the initiative, kissing Francis on both cheeks.

Francis' bow was just the latest in a series of signs the pope has no time for ceremony.

On Wednesday he showed up in central Rome for a religious ceremony in an unmarked Ford, without the papal flag or number plate, driven by a Vatican gendarme.

He then entered the church carrying his folded mitre tucked under one arm. The incident recalled his carrying a personal briefcase up the steps to the plane on which he flew to Brazil in July.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/the-pope/10276319/Pope-breaks-with-protocol-by-bowing-to-Queen-Rania-of-Jordan.html

[franksterling]

Jesuits....

[raginghormones]

such humility..

[bodieph]

in a sense, this is exactly what a pope should be. he should be someone people can easily approach, and people can relate to in a normal way. its exactly what the catholic church needs right now since ang nagiging image nila before was they were detached from reality, being too traditional and unwilling to change with the times

[Idiot]

in a sense, this is exactly what a pope should be. he should be someone people can easily approach, and people can relate to in a normal way. its exactly what the catholic church needs right now since ang nagiging image nila before was they were detached from reality, being too traditional and unwilling to change with the times

tama the RC now is losing more believers and kung totoo ang hula pope francis will be the last before mag-start ng mag-collapse ang RC

ngayon according sa factbook ng Central Intelligence agency

Comparative chart – number of      Christian               Muslim
1900 world population                       26.9%                 12.4%
1980 world population                       30%                    16.5%
2000 world population                       29.9%                 19.2%
2025 world population (PROJECTED)  25%                     30%

non-religious and atheist grows

so this is the move the RC needs 

[neckromancer]

Catholic ako pero natatawa ako kung anong klaseng explanation ang gagawin ng mga hagad ni Pope.