‘Franciscan’ Austerity, a Self-Imposed Straitjacket

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All the members of the so-called ‘Fourth Transformation’ live with the divine commandment of republican austerity, or even “Franciscan poverty,” as an authentic straitjacket. It could be said that they did not choose it, which was a plan of the patriarch, but having embraced the “movement,” it becomes his choice to conduct himself like this, and now it is hard for several to stick to the proclamation. The most recent case is that of the Black se…