Pope Curbs Autonomy of Franciscan Friars (Assisi)

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Pope Benedict XVI has curbed the independence of Franciscan friars running the famed St. Francis Basilica in Assisi, decreeing they must now get permission for their activities from the local bishop.

Benedict’s decision, announced Saturday, came after the outgoing bishop complained he had virtually no power over “autonomous enclaves” the Franciscans exercised over the basilica, its adjoining convent and a nearby church. The basilica is known for its frescoes attributed to Giotto and is a major pilgrimage and tourist destination.“The local church is a family that lives around the bishop,” the outgoing bishop, Monsignor Sergio Goretti, told the ANSA news agency. “In Assisi, it was absurd that there existed true and proper autonomous enclaves over which the bishop had no power.”

He complained that he regularly found out about monks’ initiatives from the newspapers, and that their work caused him problems.

boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/11/20/pope_curbs_autonomy_of_franciscan_friars/
 
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HagiaSophia:
Pope Benedict XVI has curbed the independence of Franciscan friars running the famed St. Francis Basilica in Assisi, decreeing they must now get permission for their activities from the local bishop.

Benedict’s decision, announced Saturday, came after the outgoing bishop complained he had virtually no power over “autonomous enclaves” the Franciscans exercised over the basilica, its adjoining convent and a nearby church. The basilica is known for its frescoes attributed to Giotto and is a major pilgrimage and tourist destination
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Ah, the Franciscans. Do you know the three things that God doesn’t know?

How many nuns there are in Rome.
What a Jesuit is thinking.
Where the Franciscans get all their money.

Maybe this thread offers a glimpse at the third point. 😃
 
Pope puts friars of Assisi under direct Vatican authority

Vatican City, Nov. 24, 2005 (CNA) - In a move that some reports have called “shocking”, Pope Benedict XVI has put the friars of the shrine of St. Francis of Assisi under the direct authority of Church officials, stripping them of the autonomy granted to them in 1969. Read more
 
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Ah, the Franciscans. Do you know the three things that God doesn’t know?

How many nuns there are in Rome.
What a Jesuit is thinking.
Where the Franciscans get all their money.

Maybe this thread offers a glimpse at the third point. 😃
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Plus I see in addition to the contents of the news article
Audi is sponsor advertised on the Franciscan’s website
 
These are good news, but in Spain, we have many bishops and monasteries very nationalists and few catholics, they don´t evangelize and they only make politics.
This happens in Catalonia and Basque Country.
 
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These are good news, but in Spain, we have many bishops and monasteries very nationalists and few catholics, they don´t evangelize and they only make politics.
This happens in Catalonia and Basque Country.
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This will be no consolation, but apparently it exists just about everywhere; here we call it being PC (politically correct) and we have a prominent group – apparently B16 noted the same thing in Germany as witness his “oration” to them on their recent ad limina visit. It’s part of the church world post council and in many ways the consequence of poor seminary and theological formation.
 
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