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THIS Holy Thursday, Pope Francis once again departed from what Catholics have become accustomed to in the rite of the washing of the feet. As he did last year, the pope washed the feet of men and women, Catholics and non-Catholics. During his celebration of the Mass of the Lord’s Supper at the Santa Maria della Provvidenza Center in Rome (a home for the elderly and the disabled, also known as the Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi), the pope knelt before 12 persons with disabilities and washed their feet. Among them were an Ethiopian woman, a 16-year-old boy from Cape Verde paralyzed in a diving accident last year and a Muslim from Libya.