[Quix]

He ritually does . . . I think once a year. The finery and pomp and circumstance involved is incredible. As are the already clean feet. LOL.

It would be far more impressive if they went out into the streets and washed some dirty homeless feet and gave them new socks and shoes.

[don-o]

It would be far more impressive if they went out into the streets and washed some dirty homeless feet and gave them new socks and shoes.

It's never enough, is it? One (ill informed) poster smugly says "Well, I'd like to see their pope wash some feet..."

Pics posted of current Pope doing exactly that.

Then - he washed the wrong kind of feet!

Reductio ad absurdum.

[Deo volente]

It would be far more impressive if they went out into the streets and washed some dirty homeless feet

This is almost too easy...

For several years, Pope John Paul washed the feet of elderly laymen, including a group of homeless men living at a shelter run by the Missionaries of Charity in 1980.

http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0602152.htm

[Iscool]

He ritually does . . . I think once a year. The finery and pomp and circumstance involved is incredible. As are the already clean feet. LOL

Ahhh, showtime then...

[Jvette]

What a ridiculous statement.

Christ only washed the feet of His Apostles once, at the Last Supper. Earlier in the Gospels, we hear about the woman who washed his feet with her tears, dried them with her hair and anointed them with expensive oil. It was Judas who objected to this on behalf of the poor.

Millions of Catholics around the world engage in charity feeding, housing, educating and clothing the poor.

[Cronos]

It would be far more impressive if they went out into the streets and washed some dirty homeless feet and gave them new socks and shoes.

Mother's Teresa's roses:

The Rose Room at Bandra (opposite Bhabha Hospital) caters to give hope to, so many homeless, naked, sick and starving men, women & children each day. They are welcome to a bath, clean clothes and food cooked by Yellow Roses. On their way to Bhabha Hospital we take them for admission (pay for medicines, admission, etc. )

Reaching out to the poorest on the streets, the Red Roses with packets of food, search the roads for the helpless, feeding and bathing them.

[MarkBsnr]

It would be far more impressive if they went out into the streets and washed some dirty homeless feet and gave them new socks and shoes.

Have you ever done this?