{"id":18886,"date":"2013-03-30T05:35:52","date_gmt":"2013-03-30T11:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=18886"},"modified":"2013-05-15T09:17:03","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T15:17:03","slug":"ap-popes-foot-wash-a-final-straw-for-traditionalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/30\/ap-popes-foot-wash-a-final-straw-for-traditionalists\/","title":{"rendered":"AP: Pope&#8217;s foot-wash a final straw for traditionalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writing for <em>AP, <\/em>Nicole Winfield summarizes well the liturgical significance of Pope Francis:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/E\/EU_VATICAN_POPE_TRADITIONALISTS?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&amp;CTIME=2013-03-29-16-43-17\" target=\"_blank\">Pope&#8217;s foot-wash a final straw for traditionalists<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Francis&#8217; decision to disregard church law and wash the feet of two girls &#8211; a Serbian Muslim and an Italian Catholic &#8211; during a Holy Thursday ritual has become something of the final straw, evidence that Francis has little or no interest in one of the key priorities of Benedict&#8217;s papacy: reviving the pre-Vatican II traditions of the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most-read traditionalist blogs, &#8220;Rorate Caeli,&#8221; reacted to the foot-washing ceremony by declaring the death of Benedict&#8217;s eight-year project to correct what he considered the botched interpretations of the Second Vatican Council&#8217;s modernizing reforms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Virtually everything he has done since being elected pope, every gesture, every decision, has rankled traditionalists in one way or another.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2224,30],"tags":[827,2245,730,2286,3021,756,360],"class_list":["post-18886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pope-francis","category-reform-of-the-reform","tag-associated-press","tag-foot-washing","tag-mandatum","tag-nicole-winfield","tag-pope-francis","tag-rorate-coeli","tag-traditionalism"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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