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Francis's forma vitae for the Fratres Minores, the original rule
for the Franciscan Order, was meant to establish peace and equality
among people who worked together in a community, yet each using his
own particular talent: an ideal that had a short life. At Francis's
death, Pope Gregory IX took the opportunity to use Francis's
popularity in order to satisfy his political ambition. Despite the
protest of Francis's closest brothers and sisters, the ones who had
shared the true experience of the order during his life, the Pope
changed Francis's forma vitae into something more palatable and
useful to the Church. The Franciscan Order became a tool for the
Church to reassert control on every issue and in every situation
regarding spirituality, religious dogmas, the position of women in
society, and material possession. Many of these issues had never
been on Francis's agenda. While making Francis a famous saint with
a spectacular canonization, at the same time the Church ignored
Francis's original and revolutionary concept often deeply opposed
to the Church's politics. Thoughts on Francis of Assisi illustrates
with historical details the Franciscan Order's makeover devised by
the Catholic Church after Francis's death. The Franciscan Order was
never what Francis had created. Thoughts on Francis of Assisi is
essential reading for graduate course in History, Religious
Studies, and Italian Studies.
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