Dodging the slushy snow, Brother Joseph Maria runs back to the house on St. Joseph Street from one of his usual 2- to 3-mile jaunts through downtown, clad in sandals and a long, brown woolen robe.
He greets a reporter. Then, in a small parlor, he settles with his guest on a plywood bench, which is as fancy as the furniture gets in this rented old house for six Roman Catholic men, known as the Franciscan Brothers Minor.
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