Pope and new relations with Assisi Franciscans

http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/12/04/pope_imposes_tighter_controls_on_events_of_franciscan_monks/




''Sometimes, I only found out what the monks were doing when I read about it in the newspapers," he said.

"Benedict's decree is a benchmark in the evolution of his seven-month-old papacy, many church observers say. So far, his reign has been an exercise in the tightening of practice to match church doctrine as he sees it."

As he sees it?