The hammer is then used to destroy the papal ring, the symbol of his authority.

The cosmonaut automatically dropped to one knee and kissed the papal ring.

Hands reached across the barriers to touch him, and nuns stretched out for the chance to kiss his papal ring.

The cardinals knelt and kissed the papal ring.

I think I should really like to wear an episcopal ring or, better still, a Papal ring.

It was written on vellum, generally closed, i.e., folded, and sealed in red wax with the papal ring of the fisherman.

Urban, Patriarch of Rome, extended his hand for the kiss, and the young commander brushed the papal ring with his lips.

Pope Pius IX, in a rather controversial move, chose to wear as his papal ring a cameo of himself.

When there was no reply, his papal ring was broken, which meant the end of John Paul II's papacy (reign as pope).

But some touches identify leaders and make them more imposing: a bishop's mitre, for example, a cardinal's red hat, a papal tiara or a papal ring.

(Well into the 1970's, the house magazine of Americans United had a weakness for photographs of government officials kissing the papal ring; today it tends to demonize Pat Robertson.)

John Paul II's first trip to Brazil lasted two weeks and included visits to squatter slums that so moved him that he donated his papal ring to one of the communities.

The pope's robes and even his papal ring are restored to him from the World Museum of Myths, and he is forced to don them for the occasion, faintly remembering earlier days when they were his normal attire.

This he gave to them, gifting to them a papal ring, the Standard of St. Peter, and a papal edict to present to the English clergy saying that William was given the papal blessing for his bid to the throne.

As he had repeated the words of his lessons over and over and committed them to memory, he had imagined himself, maybe fifty years in the future, wearing the cassock and papal ring, celebrating mass for thousands in the great churches and stadia of the world.