Day: August 8, 2010

Priest-in-Charge? Rector? What’s in a title?

What’s on the business card, while entirely irrelevant to some, can certainly have the capacity to tinge ministerial life in critical ways. Though ethereal sounding, the loss of “temporalities” is real enough; and the headaches that can arise in an environment of rent-to-own authority can be more than one feels is worth bargaining for.

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Apostolic poverty

It is not surprising that the friars, both Dominican and Franciscan, were greeted with incredulity and alarm, because of their habit of wandering around and frequenting public places. Even someone as sympathetic as Jacques de Vitry regarded Franciscan life as dangerous, because of its lack of enclosure and stability.

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