![]() We shouldn’t be shooting low, just so we can create something. We should hold ourselves to standards that are as high, if not higher, than the culture, than modern media has. What should be the place of the Church in producing modern media? That was his mission, and people found that mission to be so foretelling that a movement arose that was associated with the charism of this person, but it wasn’t his role to necessarily give structure to that movement. He set out with this personal call from Jesus Christ to proclaim the Gospel in this extraordinary way. He was very off-putting to most modern sensibilities. ![]() He was a frightening figure when you really look into it, somewhat of a cave dweller. If you break open that pearl, there’s that grain of sand, and that’s Francis of Assisi. He’s hard for us to take, so we clothe him over time with this mythology to turn him into a pearl that’s easier for us to keep in our gullet. ![]() ![]() He’s like the grain of salt that gets into the life story, and we’re the oysters. It was the display of himself as a disciple of Jesus that made him so attractive and strange. ![]() We wanted to show that he was a radical Christian, that he was a disciple of Jesus, embedded in these particular circumstances, in this particular period of time. There’s much more to Francis than any of those types of things. What do you want people to learn about him? Some people picture Francis as a tree-hugging vegetarian who spent all day playing with birds and bunnies - but none of this is true. ![]()
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