Word: franciscanism
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...Franciscan nun with a round, grandmotherly face stepped out of her office into the Los Angeles sunshine one morning last week, threaded her way between pieces of lumber and piles of bricks until she spotted a trowel. Picking it up, she laid a brick in businesslike fashion, smiled happily at the nearest bricklayer and said: "Thank God it is going...
...Franciscans were charmed by Jordá from his first guest appearance last season. They liked the vitality of his gestures, the warmth of tone he drew from the orchestra. Their hearts went out to him when his stiff collar popped open in a fiery Spanish number. Finally, his fondness for the lyrical touch and his romantic musical taste-he has revived rarely played Schumann and Dvorak symphonies-made him seem a logical successor to Monteux, who for 17 years had molded San Franciscan taste...
...Yazzie" is Navaho for "Shorty," the affectionate nickname of Franciscan Father Berard Haile (rhymes with wryly), who has spent 53 of his close to 80 years laboring to bring Navahos to Christianity and Christians to an understanding of the Navahos. It was in the latter role that the little white-haired priest came before the Council last week to speak for an hour and a half in his deep, booming voice...
...sunshine, and late into the night, 14,209 Chinese anti-Communists poured across the line. They broke ranks to embrace the welcomers. They passed out mimeographed pamphlets thanking "Dear U.N. honorable fighters" for not letting them go back to Communism. One gaunt P.W. hailed an Irish Franciscan friar he had known in the camps of Koje Island. "That was Kuo Shu-han," the priest said. "Among the men he is a hero. He went into a 1,500-man compound dominated by Communists, and brought out 300 anti-Communists." A middle-aged P.W. thanked a young lieutenant, then broke down...
...ultramodern operating setup was a dream come true, not only for Harvard-trained Dr. Taran, but for Mother Mary of Kevelaer and the 46 sisters of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary who run the Long Island hospital-sanatorium. When it was founded in 1937, in a rambling mansion and stables given to the nuns by Shipowner Carlos Munson (a Quaker), it was a home for child victims of heart disease, and little more...