Yep, somebody took his cap.
Probably the same person who took Tom Brady’s jersey.
From Holy See to Holy Shit in just two posts. 
Dorothy’s Ruby Slippers have also been stolen.
There’s a supervillain somewhere out there assembling the strangest costume ever.
My money is on Richard Simmons.
That article about the three-year-old girl who took the pope’s hat is hilarious. “She was kind of staring at the hat … as the pope was going in to kiss her, she was already eyeballing it.”
I saw an interview with the family, where the mother tells how her daughter told her “I met the Pope and I got his hat”, which I imagine was quite a mixed message to hear from your child.
I can only imagine how the girl would have reacted if Francis was wearing Drew Barrymore’s cowgirl hat from ET, as Benedict liked to do.
Had she managed to place the cap on her own head, she would have immediately been bathed in a heavenly glow while all of the pontiff’s magnificent powers surged into her, while the body of Francis would have been transformed into so much lifeless ash and wound up swept away by the wind. Or, at least, that’s how I like to imagine it would have played out.
We’re seeing the start of a new Catholic tradition. Hundreds of years from now, on the last Wednesday of March, the Pope will give her hat to a child, and no-one will remember why.
Until someone asks about the tradition on the New Improved Super Straight Dope, and someone other links to this very thread on waywaywaybackmachine.com ;).
That is absolutely the sweetest idea ever, and I bet His Holiness would fully support the idea! He loves children so much!
~VOW
Benny sure likes fancy hats. Two of the best here.