Contrast his cavalier advice with that of St. Francis of Assisi’s:
“I conjure you all to show all reverence and all honor possible to the most holy Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ,” St. Francis wrote in his Letter to All the Friars, “in whom the things that are in heaven and the things that are on earth are pacified and reconciled to Almighty God.”
St. Francis of Assisi. Now there was a real radical. They didn’t call him the Poverello for nothing. I saw his habit in the museum there. It was all patches stitched together. I don’t know how it survived so long.