The Feast of Francis in a World that Is the Opposite of the Saint of Assisi
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He was neither pacifist nor environmentalist in today's sense. Celebrating him only as a symbol of fraternity and of drive to the social redistribution of wealth risks emptying its radicality. He didn't ask the world to change: he began by himself. Everything you say you believe in, how much are you willing to live it? That's his question, still today, still there.
The philosopher Massimo Cacciari, guest of the podcast Do not shoot on the pianist, explains how contemporary culture has completely misunderstood the message of St. Francis, reduced today, 800 years after his death, to reassuring imagery: the first ecologist or pacifist friend of animals. The Poor Assisi has instead testified to poverty as abandoning his own egotry. And he praised the creatures in the light of their relationship with the Creato…
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