tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21487528.post7647781830622987842..comments2023-08-19T23:23:19.849+10:00Comments on Sentire cum Ecclesia: Bumping into Cardinals in the BunkerSchützhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05026181010471282505noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21487528.post-87109599677349856952007-04-19T23:13:00.000+10:002007-04-19T23:13:00.000+10:00What do you do when you greet a Cardinal? Besides ...What do you do when you greet a Cardinal? Besides say something silly and meaningless like I did, you mean? Well, I have to admit that my first impulse was indeed to go down on my knees and kiss his ring, but I had to stop myself with the reminder that we don't do that anymore--especially not in the office corridor--so we shook hands!<BR/><BR/>Fact is that these days, if you did genuflect and kiss the ring, you would be picked for a non-Catholic quicker than you can "whistle Dixie", so to speak!Schützhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05026181010471282505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21487528.post-1596668861965727102007-04-19T21:40:00.000+10:002007-04-19T21:40:00.000+10:00Maybe this is a good time to ask...What do you do ...Maybe this is a good time to ask...<BR/><BR/>What do you do when you greet a Cardinal? Is there a ring to kiss? What about a non-Catholic...do they need to kiss the ring? If a Cardinal is from France...do you kiss cheeks? Or does one greet a cardinal like anyone else and shake hands?<BR/><BR/>At my nephew's confirmation the archbishop got out of his car as we were walking past it in the parking lot and he stopped to talk to us. Heck...I didn't know how to greet him or what to kiss. Here...the Archbishop of the Atlanta diocese was talking to 3 Lutherans and an Orthodox in the parking lot when there were a whole boat load of Catholics around who would have appreciated it more. He probably didn't even know we weren't Catholic unless we botched the greeting. So...educate us, Herr Schutz, on greeting Cardinals and Bishops, <I>bitte</I>.Dixiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08511317203353075644noreply@blogger.com