[presently no screen name]

I see it went right over your head. It’s the mindset - the Pope is NOT a servant like Jesus. I used washing of the feet as one example. You don’t wash someone’s feet one moment and then go back to your marble palace with servants galore command ‘your subjects’ to obey your decrees. That’s why it’s a photo op - what ‘looks’ good. A religious moment caught on Kodak.

Pope is pomp and circumstance - Jesus nor any of his apostles/disciples were.

The Pope’s ‘subjects’ bow/genuflect to him and KISS his ring.

Pope lives like King Herod and head gear and dress to boot!

You can’t serve TWO masters!

[Cronos]

Actually, the Pope IS a servant to the servants. You said clearly that you thought this was a photo-op. I told you very clearly that this is something done every Maundy Thursday by popes before the invention of the term photo-op and also by every priestly celebrant

Does your neighborhood parish priest who washes the feet of 12 on Maundy Thursday have a "marble palace with servants galore"?

[Cronos]

Next, the papal rooms of Pope Benedict are spartan, the rest of the Vatican is offices and the museum. And where exactly are there “servants galore”?