Manila: Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila will wash the feet of migrants and refugees during a Holy Week ritual that traditionally celebrates Christ’s washing of the feet of the apostles. The head of Caritas Internationalis, who is leading a Vatican campaign to interact and welcome migrants and forcibly displacedContinue Reading
Washing of the feet should change the washer and the washedContinue Reading
Latin churches included women for the washing of feet ritualContinue Reading
Vatican City: Priests are not obligated to wash the feet of women during the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday, a Vatican official has clarified. Cardinal Robert Sarah. prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments, told reporters in Rome on February 26 thatContinue Reading
The powerful symbolic gesture will resonate across the globeContinue Reading
Pope Francis has issued a decree changing the way that the Holy Thursday foot-washing rite is celebrated around the world. The decree was published today by the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments and signed by prefect Cardinal Robert Sarah. The decree says that the riteContinue Reading
Vatican City — In what has now become a tradition begun by Pope Francis himself three years ago, the Holy Father shared lunch with a group of priests on Holy Thursday 2 April, following the Eucharistic celebration in St. Peter’s Basilica. The bishop of Rome met nine parish priests ofContinue Reading
