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“The city is always corrupt.” “The city is the place where today live the people of God, of whom you, we, are the shepherds. It is the place of scandal in which the rich prelates preach virtue to poor and hungry people.
The simple are meat for slaughter, to be used when they are useful in causing trouble for the opposing power,
and to be sacrificed when they are no longer of use.”
“Then we are living in a place abandoned by God,” I said, disheartened. “Have you found any places where God would have felt at home?” William asked me, looking down from his great height.
And so I fell devoutly asleep and slept a long time, because young people seem to need sleep more than the old, who have already
slept so much and are preparing to sleep for all eternity.
The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body.”
And for their part, blinded by their exclusion, they were not really interested in any doctrine. This is the illusion of heresy. Everyone is heretical, everyone is orthodox.
The faith a movement proclaims doesn’t count: what counts is the hope it offers.
He wouldn’t have been a good Franciscan if he hadn’t thought that the poor, the outcast, idiots and illiterate, often speak with the mouth of our Lord.
