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...Francis Reincarnate. Some of Brazil's religious leaders have begun to worry about the spread of Zarur's movement. Protested Jaime Cardinal de Barros Camara: "The Catholic Church cannot countenance a man who announces himself as the reincarnation of St. Francis of Assisi." Several Protestant churches warned their members against Zarur, and the Spiritualist Federation denied him recognition on the ground that he is causing confusion among the spirits...
...smugly ignorant letters stating to what Billy Graham could convert Catholics are answered by Augustine, Francis of Assisi, Thomas Aquinas, and the endless line of other saints. "Pope and priest" are precisely what Billy is short of-Christ-given authority and Christ-bearing sacraments...
Last week the successors of the Little Brothers, now the world's second largest religious order (largest: the Society of Jesus, membership 33,000), wound up their first convention in six years. The scene: Assisi. The 94 friars from 31 countries who met for a two-week General Chapter represented some 30,000 Franciscans, O.F.M. (Order of Friars Minor). Their garb, if not vile, was still mostly the traditional brown, rough cloth and sandals. As for their discourse, it was anything but brief...
...friar delegates at Assisi could also look out to a growing network of more or less affiliated Franciscan groups, for no order has been more beset with sectarianism. Soon after St. Francis' death, his simplicity and fervor living on in his followers caused a profusion of Franciscan-rule sects and splinter groups-Spirituals, Moderates. Celestines, Observants, Intransigents. In 1517 the Conventuals were constituted a separate order; they permit their monasteries to hold property (most other Franciscan property is held and administered by the Holy See), and they wear black habits, shoes and birettas. The more ascetic Franciscans split from...
Stronger Than Ever. During their two weeks in Assisi. the delegates sang the songs of their order's medieval days, laughed at Latin digs aimed at other orders, mourned the news from China, where 700 Franciscan missionaries have been reduced to one. Then they re-elected Minister-General Sépinski for a twelve-year term...