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In this picture made available by the Vatican newspaper L' Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis kisses the foot of a man at the Don Gnocchi Foundation Center in Rome, Thursday, April 17, 2014. The Pontiff has washed the feet of 12 elderly and disabled people — women and non-Catholics among them — in a pre-Easter ritual designed to show his willingness to serve like a "slave." Francis' decision in 2013 to perform the Holy Thursday ritual on women and Muslim inmates at a juvenile detention center just two weeks after his election helped define his rule-breaking papacy. It riled traditionalist Catholics, who pointed to the Vatican's own regulations that the ritual be performed only on men since Jesus' 12 apostles were men. The 2014 edition brought Francis to a center for the elderly and disabled Thursday. Francis kneeled down, washed, dried and kissed the feet of a dozen people, some in wheelchairs. He said the ritual is a gesture of "a slave's service." (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano)
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** FILE ** Christian von Koenigsegg, left, founder of the Swedish car-maker Koenigsegg Automotive AB, walks around his Agera R sports car at the New York International Auto Show, Thursday, April 17, 2014, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
