[AnAmericanMother]

I will say this regarding the Franciscans . . . they are sometimes downright kooky, and almost always somewhat eccentric, and almost always liberal too.

But they're honest by their lights, and I've never met a really mean one -- they tend to be somewhat emphatic, but they're never nasty or slippery.

Can't say the same for some other orders . . . .

[Unam Sanctam]

Of course their founder was kind of a nutter (and I say that with all due affection) — what with rolling about in the snow and taking the Evangelical counsels literally and all that, so eccentricity is perhaps part of their charism...