Word: franciscanism
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...Canticle of the Creatures, written about 1225, St. Francis of Assist blessed the Lord for "Brother Sun," "Sister Moon," stars, fire, water and earth. The founder of the Franciscan order developed a wide following during his life for his appreciation of nature's bounty. In recent times, his popularity has grown: St. Francis has been the subject of numerous movies and biographies, and became something of a cult idol for hippies in the 1960s. Now it is Pope John Paul II who has honored St. Francis. The Pope named him Patron Saint of Ecology because "he has sung stupendously...
Only 25 miles away lay Auschwitz and the adjoining concentration camp, Birkenau. The Pope visited the cell of a beatified Franciscan priest, Martyr Maximilian Kolbe, who offered his own life to save a fellow prisoner. The prisoner, Franciszek Gajowniczek, was there, along with other survivors of the camp (including some 200 priests), eager to roll up their sleeves and show the tattooed serial numbers on their arms. Said one of the first inmates, an old man who had been injected with typhoid in a Nazi medical experiment: "Our religion helped us survive the greatest hell on earth." Said another...
Money problems have aggravated friction between Kucinich and the police. Last December he replaced the department's chief with San Franciscan Richard Hongisto, a liberal defender of homosexuals' rights, who at first was widely disliked by the police but quickly gained the department's respect. Within months Kucinich fell out with the chief and fired him. Not until last week did Kucinich name a permanent successor. The mayor's choice: Jeffrey Fox, a 36-year-old former city personnel director with no previous police experience. The selection left the force seething in anger...
...Look at the Franciscan motto, 'To work is to pray,'" Robinson noted, "and it's obvious that the word 'wonk' is just 'know' spelled backwards...
...within the ranks of Italian pastors, they will have their work cut out for them. The Patriarchate of Venice, left open by Pope John Paul, stands empty. Giovanni Cardinal Colombo, Arch bishop of Milan, will be 76 in December. The important Arch diocese of Turin is governed by a Franciscan friar noted for his spirituality, Anastasio Ballestrero, 66 this week. But Ballestrero, though eligible to be elected Pope, is an unlikely candidate because he is not yet a Cardinal. Antonio Cardinal Poma of Bologna, 68, is a kindly, humble man, a stern foe of any detente with Italian Communism...