1.   As is usually the case on papal trips inside Italy, he did not kneel to kiss the ground.

2.   Aa the service began in earnest, he knelt to kiss the altar.

3.   Concern resurfaced last week when the pope visited Croatia and was unable to perform his customary gesture of kneeling to kiss the ground on his arrival.

4.   He did not kneel to kiss the ground, a practice he reserves for first time visits.

5.   He dropped his blue togs and black sneakers, then knelt to kiss the center of the mat.

6.   He refrained from kneeling to kiss the ground, his custom when arriving in a country for the first time.

7.   Although he kept up his punishing programme of overseas trips, he gave up on his practice of kneeling to kiss foreign soil on his arrival.

8.   Many of the bearded men paused briefly to pray or knelt to kiss the ground once they stepped into the Palestinian territory.