[Mrs. Don-o]

Isn't the Bishop of Rome the highest liturgical authority in the Diocese of Rome? Isn't the Pope the highest liturgical authority in the Church? Aren't the people who wrote the GIRM his advisors and ecclesiastical subjects?

Just trying to get oriented, here.

[jwalsh07]

Yes, yes and yes. The Apostolic See is the seat that controls the liturgy. Don’t see how this can be argued much.

[Brian Kopp DPM]

From Fr. Z.'s thread on this subject, Of Holy Thursday and the foot-washing rite: problems – solutions

Fr AJ says:

26 March 2013 at 8:18 am

But Father, but Father, what if our Holy Father Francis washes women’s feet in his Holy Thursday prison Mass – does that change the law?

• Fr. John Zuhlsdorf says:

  26 March 2013 at 8:22 am

  Fr AJ says: if our Holy Father Francis washes women’s feet … does that change the law?

  Certainly not. All that would do is alter our opinion of him.