St Francis Uncensored

Why is it that for 800 years a vast amount of research and writing has surrounded St Francis yet the ordinary people of the Western world still see him simply as a saint who loved animals? Why did their families think that Francis and Clare were runaway lovers, caught up in a strange medieval cult of which, some thought, Francis was the leader? Was St Clare, who spoke truth to power, an early leader in world feminism? Why do some elements of Islam, a faith from which Francis learned so much, even today claim St Francis as their saint and Time magazine speaks of this as a crucial link between East and West? In this no-holds barred, eye-opening account the author peels away layers of tired thinking and discovers a bright new world with many alternative questions to ask. He invites the reader (and biographers straining to explain Pope Francis) to join him in exploring avenues that shaped the tantalizing, even unorthodox, spirituality of St Francis and Clare of Assisi. See more