CLERICAL ROBES
Sir,—ln sharp contrast to a cardinal in a £7OOO robe was St. Francis of Assisi, a true follower in Christ’s footsteps, and I quote from a tribute to him from a Protestant writer in the “Digest.” “People begged him to preach the word of God. When he preached he stood not on a pulpit but barefoot in the midst of his fellows, poorer even than they—their ‘Poor Cecco.’ Instead of metaphysics he gave them God. Instead of hell he promised them God’s love. He was not interested in the weakness of men but in their strength, not in the ugliness of life but in its beauty. From an overflowing Jieart he would burst into song, in canticles of praise.”—Yours, etc.. J. DENNEHY. Haast, February 5. 1946. [This correspondence is now closed.— Ed.. “The Press.”]
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24798, 12 February 1946, Page 2
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