Religion: Greeting

Reported New York Times Correspondent Anne O’Hare McCormick from Rome last week: “A story is going the rounds of a lanky, soft-voiced Texan in a large group of soldiers received by the Pope in a recent audience. First in line, he didn’t quite know what to do when the Holy Father offered his ring to be kissed. So he shook the Pontiff’s outstretched hand and said politely, as nice boys do in Texas, ‘Hi yah, Mister Pope.'”