Franciscan order in "grave" financial difficulties

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@jayjay

INDIVIDUAL poverty. None of the holy orders vows to institutional poverty, otherwise they’d have no way of maintaining life for their population of personally indigent members. Or, as Sister Mary Annette from Nunsense says, “We can HAVE anything. We just can’t OWN it!”

Also, as jayjay implies but doesn’t spell out, ALL members of monastic orders take vows of poverty.