Saint Francis would probably have made most of us uncomfortable. He’s perhaps both the most well-known and domesticated saint. His love for God and His creation has translated into making him a secular patron for pets. But his radical love of God and insistence on poverty sparked renewal in a way that comfort cannot.
Father Fidelis Moscinski, a Franciscan friar in the tradition of Saint Francis, makes people uncomfortable. When I’m around him, he’s usually praying deliverance prayers outside an abortion clinic. On New York City streets, that makes people not only uncomfortable, but livid. (You don’t want me to repeat some of the things I’ve heard said to him.) When he’s out there, we can’t pretend that the abortion clinic is just another office building. It’s a place where lives end. Developing lives, but lives all the same. Follow the science.
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