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...Assisi could also look out to a growing network of more or less affiliated Franciscan groups, for no order has been more beset with sectarianism. Soon after St. Francis' death, his simplicity and fervor living on in his followers caused a profusion of Franciscan-rule sects and splinter groups-Spirituals, Moderates. Celestines, Observants, Intransigents. In 1517 the Conventuals were constituted a separate order; they permit their monasteries to hold property (most other Franciscan property is held and administered by the Holy See), and they wear black habits, shoes and birettas. The more ascetic Franciscans split from the order...
Pretty Maura Lyons was 15 years old and a member of Northern Ireland's Roman Catholic minority (34.2%) when she went to work a year ago as a stitcher in a Belfast garment factory. There she met several members of a splinter sect known as the Free Presbyterian Church, and soon she became a Protestant. Her father, a shipyard worker, and her mother were horrified; so was the parish priest. There were family conferences, prayers and tears. Then Maura Lyons disappeared...
Only a specialist reader will care to follow the C.P. through its early history of heresy, splinter groups and purges. From a host of names, Historian Draper has underlined one that serves to tell the story of all. Louis C. Fraina was the "one man who led the way to a pro-Communist Left Wing," and he was once so important, says Draper sarcastically, that William Z. Foster in a 600-page History of the Communist Party of the United States mentions him not once...
...Poland seemed broken last week. The weapon: PAX, an organization of fellow-traveling Catholic laymen. Faced with Premier Wladyslaw Gomulka's anti-Stalinist regime, and with a new agreement for cooperation between church and state (TIME, Dec. 17), PAX was frantically holding meetings, breaking itself up into splinter groups with new names, trying to get its members into other organizations. Explained Radio Warsaw: "PAX, disguising itself, would like to regain the confidence of the community." That confidence had never really existed...
...broke with Nenni's fellow traveling in 1947 to set up his own party, crying that "the atmosphere of liberty has been smothered." Saragat's splinter Socialists have 19 seats in the Italian Chamber of Deputies-but Nenni...