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...regarded by some Vatican watchers in 1963 as a possible successor to Pope John XXIII; in Bologna. As a parish priest in Genoa during World War II, Lercaro aided anti-Fascist partisans and refugees. As archbishop of Bologna (1952-68), he organized a group of young priests into the frati volanti (flying friars) to speak out at public rallies against the local Communist government. Lercaro also supported Vatican II reforms such as the vernacular Mass and argued that the church should end its "cultural colonialism" toward non-Europeans, especially in Africa...
...years Francis and his order of Frati Minori, or Little Brothers (they did not at first aspire to the priesthood), had become a mass movement dedicated to holy poverty. When Francis got around to writing down a formal rule for his order, he prescribed "vile vestments" and, in preaching, "brief discourses, because the Lord while on earth talked briefly...
...Franciscans, Capuchins and Salesians, specifically assigned to bring Emilia's Marxist workers back to Catholicism. The cardinal's name for Father Toschi's group was Fraternltas (the Brotherhood), but Emilia has come to know them, by the speed and aggressiveness with which they operate, as the Frati Volanti (the Flying Friars...
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