by Jim McIntosh | Jan 18, 2008 | Church, Cochabamba, Franciscan, Observations |
Every night, the friars here in Cochabamba, Bolivia, give away any extra food remaining after dinner to the poor who come to the door. No left-overs are kept until the following day. I used to think this was a wonderful custom — to empty the pantry for the poor...
by Jim McIntosh | Nov 9, 2007 | Franciscan, Observations, Status, Torture |
I am over in Chile for a Franciscan justice and peace conference. Yesterday, we took a break from the sessions to visit Santiago. Our first stop was Villa Grimaldi, what was in the early 1970s a rural farm house that was used by the military dictatorship of Pinochet...
by Jim McIntosh | Sep 13, 2007 | Franciscan, Status |
I have come over to Lima for the first vows of two young friars. It was good that I came, in that only the Lima friars and the novice master from the U.S. were present to witness the vows. I had lived with one of the young men for over two years of his postulancy...
by Jim McIntosh | Mar 26, 2005 | Franciscan, Status |
Happy Easter! Classes are going well. They are all things I knew very little about, and so they are interesting because the material is new. The classes are News Writing and Reporting Broadcast Reporting Public Relations Campaigns Press Release Writing, and Desktop...
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