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Oct 4 16 tweets 6 min read
🧵1! Happy #StFrancisofAssisi day. Here's my annual list of #FACTS about the medieval saint that blows up pretty much every myth about this holy man.
2/ In his famous encounter with the Muslim Sultan al-Kamil, #SaintFrancis told the sultan that he was there to explicate the truth of the Christian faith and save the sultan’s soul. He was not there for diplomatic pleasantries, or to sign yet another interfaith statement. .
3/ #SaintFrancisOfAssisi was “fiercely orthodox” on faith and morals: he thought that friars guilty of heresy or liturgical abuses should be remanded to higher church authorities.
4/The Peace Prayer of #SaintFrancisOfAssisi can’t be traced further back than a French magazine published in 1912.
5/ #SaintFrancisOfAssisi articulated no legal or social reform program whatsoever. Such projects were “alien” to him.
6/ #SaintFrancisOfAssisi believed that his followers should engage in manual labor to procure necessities. Begging was seen as a secondary alternative.
7/ #SaintFrancisOfAssisi believed one’s most direct contact with God was in the MASS, and not in serving in the poor or in the natural world.
8/ #SaintFrancisOfAssisi rejected abstinence from meat and wasn’t a vegetarian.
9/ #SaintFrancisOfAssisi loved animals but regarded vermin and mice as the devil’s agents.
10/ #SaintFrancisOfAssisi believed the Mass required careful preparation, use of the finest sacred vessels, and proper vestments.
11/ #SaintFrancisOfAssisi's final words to his followers were concerned with proper reverence for the Eucharist, not poverty.
12/ #SaintFrancisOfAssisi "was a 13th century orthodox Catholic, not a modern spiritual individualist . . .”
13/ There was “not a hint trace of pantheism in Francis’s approach to nature”. #SaintFrancisOfAssisi's references and allusions to nature in his writings, preaching, and instruction were overwhelmingly drawn from the Scriptures rather than the environment itself.
14/ #StFrancisofAssisi regarded the beauty in nature and the animal world as something that should lead to worship and praise of God—but not things to be invested with god-like qualities.
15/ The Source for all these FACTS about #SaintFrancisOfAssisi? Augustine Thompson OP’s meticulously researched “Francis of Assisi: A New Biography” (2012). #FratelliTutti amazon.com/Francis-Assisi…
16/ The FACTS about #SaintFrancisofAssisi matter. Whether you like them or not is, I’m afraid, irrelevant. Thank you for reading. Have a nice day!

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Oct 1
1/ How many other bishops have been sanctioned for allegations presumably proved credible? What #Vatican genius dreamed this up? After the disastrous handling of the Theodore McCarrick (a monster if there ever was one) case, has the #HolySee learned nothing about transparency?
2/ This is rank clericalism at its worst. But it also reflects a widespread failure among many Vatican officials to understand basic principles of rule of law.
3/ Many clerics dismiss concern for rule of law as an "Anglo-Saxon" obsession. But rule of law is directly derived from principles of natural law - about which Catholic clerics (or at least those who aren't slaves to sociology and psychology) should know something about.
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Oct 4, 2021
1/ Happy Feast Day #SaintFrancis of #Assisi. It’s a great occasion to list various FACTS that undermine some sentimental MYTHS about this holy man in a Thread.👇
2/ In his famous encounter with the Muslim Sultan al-Kamil, #SaintFrancis told the Sultan that he was there to explicate the truth of the Christian faith and save the sultan’s soul. He was not there for interfaith chatter or diplomatic pleasantries.
3/ #SaintFrancis was “fiercely orthodox” on faith and morals: he thought that friars guilty of liturgical abuses or heresy should be remanded to higher church authorities.
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Jul 17, 2021
I am not a Latin Mass attender and am well aware of the unhealthy views of a small minority of Latin Mass attendees, but one wonders why a similar papal response has not been unleashed upon the outright heresies of numerous German bishops. 1/ #TraditionisCustodes
Or the grave liturgical abuses that are commonplace with numerous Novus Ordo masses throughout the entire world and which have been going on for decades. 2/
Or the appalling formation of young Catholics in the West since Vatican II. 3/
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Oct 7, 2020
1/ Since there’s been some discussion about #FratelliTutti’s presentation of Saint Francis of Assisi, let me list various FACTS that undermine some MYTHS about this holy man in a Thread.👇
2/ As I recently noted, Saint Francis told the Muslim Sultan al-Kamil he was there to explicate the truth of the Christian faith and save the sultan’s soul. He was not there for diplomatic pleasantries. #FratelliTutti
3/ Saint Francis was “fiercely orthodox” on faith and morals: he thought that friars guilty of liturgical abuses or heresy should be remanded to higher church authorities. #FratelliTutti
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Oct 12, 2019
1/ With the #NewmanCanonisation imminent, it’s worth remembering Newman’s devastating critique of liberalism in religion in his famous Biglietto Speech in a Thread. Here’s some of his more pointed remarks about liberal religion. #AmazonSynod people may be interested.
2/ Newman noted the “one great mischief I have from the first opposed myself. For thirty, forty, fifty years I have resisted to the best of my powers the spirit of liberalism in religion.” #NewmanCanonisation
3/ “Never,” Newman said, “did Holy Church need champions against [liberal religion] more sorely than now, when, alas! it is an error overspreading, as a snare, the whole earth.” #NewmanCanonisation
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Oct 4, 2019
1/ Since it’s the Feast-Day of Saint Francis of Assisi #francisofassisi, I’ll do my now annual listing of FACTS that undermine some MYTHS about this holy man in a Thread. #AmazonSynod folks may be especially interested.
2/ The Peace Prayer of Saint Francis can’t be traced further back than a French magazine published in 1912. #francisofassisi
3/ Saint Francis articulated no legal or social reform program whatsoever. Such projects were “alien” to him. #francisofassisi
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