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...want to be taken for a San Franciscan," advises a new San Francisco guidebook, "dress conservatively, cling to the outside of cable cars, and make bad jokes about Los Angeles." Though Guidebook Author Herb Caen does not mention it, another sure sign of the Compleat San Franciscan is his addiction to the San Francisco Examiner's Columnist Herb Caen...
Into the Black. The Franciscans' Minister-General, Father Augustine Sépinski, gave an eight-hour progress report (in Latin) on the order's advance during the six years since he was elected: 132 new friaries, schools and churches built, 144 new parishes opened, 18 Franciscans appointed bishop and four archbishop. Some 4,000 Franciscans are working in 132 missions; 2,635 novices have entered the order. The Franciscans' Second Order, a cloistered group of women known as the Poor Clares, numbers 6,000. The Franciscan Third Order Secular is for laymen; the 3,500,000 members...
...today, members of the Order of Friars Minor numbers 3,685, up 1,000 since World War II. Many of them are teachers, as are some 40,000 Franciscan lay sisters. Franciscans altogether teach an estimated 1,500,000 U.S. schoolchildren...
...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...
...addition to these main groups today, there are other communities following the Franciscan rule, e.g., the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement, the Missionary Sisters of St. Francis...