Word: franciscanism
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...silver-framed picture of their adopted son Alex, who was ten months old when he died of AIDS-related pneumonia last year. If Mickey too succumbs, they will consider adopting another child with AIDS. "I think we were called to take care of them," says Frank, a former Franciscan brother. "We know what it is like to go through the loss of a child, but we also know there is another baby out there...
...conservative Catholic educators, however, that is not enough. "A Catholic college should teach what the Catholic Church teaches is true," says Father Michael Scanlan, president of Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio. At Franciscan, that means scrutiny of on-campus lecturers and entertainers to ensure that they will not promote "immorality," and evaluation of faculty on the basis of their commitment to Catholic values. The doctrinaire approach has proved to be one of the school's main attractions. Franciscan was about to close when Scanlan assumed office in 1974 but this year took in its biggest entering class ever...
...spawning ground of the national self-image, the West. Much of the territory of the Western states, from Texas to California, was held first by Spain, then Mexico. The Spanish names of many Western cities -- Los Angeles, San Francisco, Santa Fe -- bear witness to the settlements of the early Franciscan friars. The first play on American soil was performed by Spanish colonists in New Mexico in 1598. Yet in the hills of New Mexico and the old mission towns of the Pacific Coast, the descendants of Spanish settlers who greeted the Anglo pioneers are amused (and sometimes not amused...
...brief snowfall. Jeff Barnett, 33, and Roommate Bill Hackbarth, 30, built a life-size snow sculpture of a family at the beach: kids playing, Dad holding a beer can, Mom in a light blue bikini spray-painted on her shapely form. Enter Kathleen Zanio, 43, a former Franciscan nun, who drove by the sculpture one afternoon. "Here was this woman with large, protruding breasts and abdomen," says Zanio frostily. "It was obnoxious and repulsive...
...Harold Robbins' mass-market literature suffers at the hand of Hollywood, what happens to a book about a 14th century Franciscan abbey written by an obscure Italian academic...