I didn’t read the “real answers”, but the papal ring is always smashed, it’s the Papal Seal for that Pope. Am I right? Do I win a trip to the Sistene Chapel? Oh, darn, can’t go there....bunch of Cardinals have “Overtake the Vatican”
Maybe I should go see the White House? Drat, can’t see that now, either. It’s a darn good thing my bucket list is finished....
(ps I am a Catholic, and don’t really take this as lightly as it seems. It’s a very wiggly-woggly time to be a Catholic. Who will be the boss of us now? (really..don’t some of us feel like that? Although it’s not as bad as when a Pope dies, that’s even scarier) And yes, I do laugh at funerals...just not Papal ones. Glad we won’t have one of those!
Pope Emeritus Benedict’s ring will not be destroyed or smashed. It has been defaced, the hand-crafted unique seal on top wiped out.