Its not an ordination. Its a demonstration of service. I think it sends a good tone.
Those obsessed with liturgical purity need to understand that the pope can alter the liturgy. He does have that authority. And apparently this old tradition of foot washing at the Holy Thursday mass is less than 100 years old. It started as an “innovation” of another pope.
In sum, much bigger things to worry about than trying to be more liturgically correct than the pope.
And “dont be fatuous, Jeffrey.”
Can you imagine Frank Costanza there?
have you read about it or are you just reacting off the top of your head? because i have only read a little, but the problem that it creates is real. If it is a RULE and rules are to mean something, you can’t pick and choose which rules are meaningful and which are not. Disregarding this rule gives the leftwingers in the Church the cover to disregard anything else they consider inconvenient or abhorrent to their leftwing philosophy. The crux of it is was this a RULE of some sort. Your interpretation is not necessarily the correct one and unless you can point to something that says this is not a big deal, i am going to assume that Fr. Z is correct.