Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Friar Assails "Lies" Against Franciscans of Assisi

In Wake of Pope's Program to Organize City's Holy Sites

ROME, JAN. 10, 2006 (Zenit.org).- The head of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual lamented what he said are lies against the Franciscans of Assisi, following papal measures to organize the city's holy sites.

Minister General Friar Joachim Giermek's response to media reports appeared in an editorial of the international news bulletin of the Conventual Franciscans, Fraternus Nuntius. The order's General Curia publishes the bulletin.

Assisi has attracted media attention since Nov. 9, when Benedict XVI published a letter entrusting the pastoral activity of the city's basilicas to the bishop of the local diocese.
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