Pope’s Foot-Wash a Final Straw for Traditionalist Catholics

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/popes-foot-wash-a-final-straw-for-traditionalist-catholics.php?ref=fpa

final straw, can they fire him?

not a Catholic, but i posted earlier about how it would be taken by the the inmates he was minisering to?  did not think so much about the regular parishoner, igess cause that story was about those teens and not abot the general faith as a whole.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has won over many hearts and minds with his simple style and focus on serving the world’s poorest, but he has devastated traditionalist Catholics who adored his predecessor, Benedict XVI, for restoring much of the traditional pomp to the papacy.

Francis’ decision to disregard church law and wash the feet of two girls — a Serbian Muslim and an Italian Catholic — 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’s papacy: reviving the pre-Vatican II traditions of the Catholic Church.

One of the most-read traditionalist blogs, “Rorate Caeli,” reacted to the foot-washing ceremony by declaring the death of Benedict’s eight-year project to correct what he considered the botched interpretations of the Second Vatican Council’s modernizing reforms.

if i'm understanding this correctly this person claims the new Pope, usurped the old Pope's plan at reform, from the outside looking in he failed big time, what the public perceives them to be is as they always were, especially with the dishonored priest.  

98% of the parishoners using or have used birth control tqo very important issues of long standing IMO.

A like-minded commentator in Francis’ native Argentina, Marcelo Gonzalez at International Catholic Panorama, reacted to Francis’ election with this phrase: “The Horror.” Gonzalez’s beef? While serving as the archbishop of Buenos Aires, the then-Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s efforts to revive the old Latin Mass so dear to Benedict and traditionalists were “non-existent.”

151  of these guys go in a room vote on who is the holiest among them they do it then the pomp and circumstance, now buyer's remorse??  and why are they immeadiately say he his ruining the other Popes failures, thought they were looking for a new experience and change within the church, i guess the change they want not what they got.

i always saw Pope's as pretty much figure heads and Benedict as a puppet no disrespect, now they have one who seems to be a 21st century Renaissance Pope, and all they want is status quo. hope i make no enemies this is a lay persons pov.