pomp and ceremony/ the poor how goes together

from comment 58 here http://www.calledtocommunion.com/2013/03/habemus-papam/

There is not ‘tension’ between the pomp and ceremony of the Church on the one hand, and her concern for the poor on the other hand, if by ‘tension’ you mean contradiction or incompatibility. It was Judas who thought there was such a contradiction, as we see in Mark 14 and John 12. It is right and proper to give due honor to the office of Apostle on Christ’s behalf, and to their successors for this same reason. It is also right to give charity and service to the poor, the weak, the helpless, because they too bear the image of God, and as we do it unto them, we do it unto Christ. But this is not an either/or. Christ is present to us both in the poor, and in the successors of the Apostles, in different ways. And we honor Him without contradiction both when we care for the poor and when we kiss the ring of the pope or bishop who represents Him, as St. Ignatius of Antioch explained at the end of the first century.