On Sunday morning, Pope Benedict and the Roman Curia came to the end of their six day retreat that they took as a way of making Lent a time of true conversion. Following its conclusion, Benedict XVI ...

Washing the feet of guests was a Middle Eastern tradition that went back centuries before the time of Christ. Travel was often done by foot over dry and dusty roads.Weary travelers were greeted with a ...

There are many details worth noting in this familiar account of Jesus washing the feet of his disciples at the Last Supper. The first is that it substitutes a profound example of service for the ...

Watching my daughter graduate from nursing school, I wonder just how many varied kinds of feet she will wash in her new career as a nurse. Toughened up by miles of being walked on, our feet are ...

In memory of Jesus washing the apostles’ feet, eight men had their feet washed at the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Thursday at St. Patrick Roman Catholic Church, Pottsville. “It’s an optional rite … ...

The Saviour let his disciples join the divine banquet to which He had invited them. We are in front of an action and a gift that is also a model, the task of doing the same thing to one another to ...

Trusting what you see is harder than ever these days. During Super Bowl LVIII, artificial intelligence appeared in multiple ads, as a product, a highlighted feature of a product or as the butt of a ...

Bishop David Zubik, in his robes and on his knees, washed and kissed the feet of 11 incarcerated men and one guard, mimicking Jesus’ washing the feet of his 12 apostles in a Holy Thursday Mass at the ...

The Gospel of John situates the story slightly earlier that the Synoptics do: “Now before the festival of the Passover,” he begins. At the Last Supper, he tells us, Jesus “knew that his hour had come.

Pope Francis was in the middle of a busy week Thursday, in the days leading up to Easter and the ceremonies and traditions associated with the holiday. Holy, or Maundy, Thursday, the Thursday before ...