On this feast day of St. Francis of Assisi, another excerpt from Matthew Fox's book Letters to Pope Francis:
And let us be honest--Francis never attended a seminary. Could he have kept his soul intact, his nature-fed experience of the Cosmic Christ if he had attended a seminary? Jesus also never attended a seminary. My guess is that both would have been expelled for being too right-brained, too eager to challenge culture and religion (p. 88).
The graphic: a photograph of the habit worn by Francis of Assisi, taken by Brazilian photographer, painter, and composer Ricardo Frantz (Tetraktys) and online at Wikimedia Commons.