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...young rebel named Fidel Castro. But as Castro turned from liberator to dictator, Pérez Serantes was quick to acknowledge his original error. With him against Castro were Monsignor Eduardo Boza Masvidal, rector of Villanueva University, and 100 Jesuit priests. Supporting Castro were a score of liberal-minded Franciscan fathers, mostly Basque refugees from Franco's Spain...
Quietly the church began to move. Ardently pro-Castro Franciscan Father Ignacio Biaín, editor of the important Catholic fortnightly La Quincena, was sent on a more or less permanent vacation. A secret order went out to nuns, designed to expedite their sudden flight if necessary...
...Notably Sixtus V, a Franciscan famed for his rages, who in 1585 managed to get himself elected (legend has it) by pretending to be an invalid, thereby giving his rivals in the conclave the impression that he would not last long as Pope. As soon as the winning vote was counted, he picked up the stick over which he had been crouching and hurled it as far as he could, then began intoning the Te Deum so loudly that the Vatican is said to have trembled-not to mention the cardinals. He reigned for five years...
Working to Understand. One of Taizé's major goals is to foster friendship and understanding between Protestants and Roman Catholics. Two at a time, the brothers travel to Italy to spend' two months at a Franciscan monastery. "Only to understand them," explains Schutz, "to love them more, to love St. Francis of Assisi more as well." Plans are under way to visit the Benedictines as well...
Home in the Horseshoe. Since Candlestick Park is on a peninsular sort of culdesac, many a San Franciscan feared a traffic jam to end all traffic jams. But on opening day there was not much cause for worry: Candlestick's 8,500-car parking lot was left 2,000 shy of capacity. Dreading to drive, hundreds of San Franciscans came by seaplanes, helicopters, sail and motor boats. It was all remarkably orderly...