St Francis for Today / Edmund O'Gorman

Francis Bernadone - who was he? None other than St Francis of Assisi, a man with a decided message for our time.  He lived in the early thirteenth century, preached joy, contentment, peace and the simple lifestyle. He  was indeed a spiritual reformer, but also a a respecter of Church and Society and reinvigorated them by constructively working with them, encouraging and promoting the good and beauty that was already there, and minimizing and eliminating the evils.