[catfish1957]

I don't know. I'm an American, not a Mexican. Do you know?

You are a strong minded, strict sounding Catholic, and you don't know your Church's protocols and dogma concerning addressing popes, cardinals, bishops?

I don't believe you.

[JPX2011]

and you don't know your Church's protocols and dogma concerning addressing popes, cardinals, bishops?

I guess I don't. I can't seem to recall where the Church promulgated a dogmatic teaching on the proper form of salutation for those in the magisterium.