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Recovering the real St. Francis of Assisi
David G. Bonagura, Jr., Catholic World Report
Wednesday, October 5, 2022
The modern epoch has sought to strip Francis of his religious zeal, just as it has deliberately ignored Jesus’ divinity in reducing Him to a “great moral teacher.” St. Francis has been misunderstood and deliberately misappropriated for various causes that depart from—and often ignore—the singular cause that inspired Francis’s every move: unquenchable love for God.