FRANCISCAN RIGHTS TO CLERICAL MINISTRY
ACCORDING TO SAINT BONAVENTURE
Noel Muscat OFM
ACCORDING TO SAINT BONAVENTURE
Noel Muscat OFM
Franciscan history in its early stages shows how the Order of Friars Minor evolved, with striking rapidity, from a predominantly lay penitential movement of brothers to a well organized Order made up, for the most part, of clerics.
Franciscan Studies 