Bettmann / Getty Under a watchful eye, John F Kennedy chose not to kiss the ring of Pope Paul VI In 1963 ... the leader of the Orthodox Church, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, as a sign ...
Pope Francis arrives for a Divine Liturgy with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople in the patriarchal Church of St. George in Istanbul Nov. 30, 2014. (Credit: Paul Haring/CNS.) ...