Commonweal, September 27th, 2002
David Burr Penn State Press, $45, 427 pp.
Unlike the other mendicant orders founded in the thirteenth century, the Franciscans were blessed, and burdened, by having a profoundly charismatic founder. When Saint Francis died in 1226, the order he founded was already large and had a rule that had received papal approval in 1224. Francis nonetheless worried about changes in that rule, which demanded that members of the order observe a severe form of religious poverty. His friars were not to have possessions, property, or money, nor were they to accept privileges from either the papacy or the lo...
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