While popes have for centuries washed the feet of the faithful on the day before Good Friday, never before had a pontiff washed the feet of a woman. That one of the female inmates at the prison in Rome was also a Serbian Muslim was also a break with tradition.
I cannot, I fear, add anything to the image of that.
It is not fair to compare Pope Francis to Pope Benedict XVI, or to what we as Protestants demand, but if there is a Pope that may spur the conversion of this Mainliner this could be the one…
Problem is, according to canon law, it’s only supposed to be men.
maybe that’s not the last canon law he’ll break.
Yes, this sort of behavior would tempt me to consider becoming a Catholic.
Except he can do what he did because under canon law the Pope is the ultimate legislator, interpreter, and executor.
Agreed; though his doing it doesn’t change canon law.