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Vatican City, Mar 30, 2013 \/ 11:15 pm (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- In response to controversy, the Vatican's spokesman has praised Pope Francis' \u201csimple\u201d act of love for including two women among a group of young prisoners whose feet he washed on Holy Thursday.<\/p>\n

\tIn a March 29 statement provided to the media, Father Federico Lombardi called the Pope's move a \u201cvery beautiful and simple gesture of a father who desired to embrace those who were on the fringes of society; those who were not refined experts of liturgical rules.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tPope Francis made headlines recently after deciding to celebrate Holy Thursday Mass on March 28 at Casal del Marmo youth detention center in Rome, instead of the Basilica of Saint John Lateran.<\/p>\n

\tDuring his leadership of the Buenos Aires archdiocese, then-Cardinal Bergoglio was known to preside over the Holy Thursday liturgy in a prison, a hospital or a hospice for the poor and marginalized people.<\/p>\n

\tAmong the twelve young inmates whose feet he washed on Thursday were two women, one of Serbian-Muslim tradition.<\/p>\n

\tFollowing significant media attention as well as backlash from some within the Church, Fr. Lombardi said that to \u201chave excluded the young women from the ritual washing of feet on Holy Thursday night in this Roman prison, would have detracted our attention from the essence of the Holy Thursday Gospel.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cOne can easily understand that in a great celebration, men would be chosen for the foot washing because Jesus, himself washing the feet of the twelve apostles who were male,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cHowever the ritual of the washing of the feet on Holy Thursday evening\u2026took place in a particular, small community that included young women.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cWhen Jesus washed the feet of those who were with him on the first Holy Thursday, he desired to teach all a lesson about the meaning of service, using a gesture that included all members of the community,\u201d the spokesman emphasized in his statement.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThat the Holy Father, Francis, washed the feet of young men and women on his first Holy Thursday as Pope, should call our minds and hearts to the simple and spontaneous gesture of love, affection, forgiveness and mercy of the Bishop of Rome, more than to legalistic, liturgical or canonical discussions.\u201d<\/p>\n

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