In Franco Zeffirelli?s ?70s movie about St. Francis of Assisi “Brother Sun, Sister Moon,” there is a scene which speaks to the flap over the recent forced resignation of the Rev. Ray Martin, popular pastor of Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church in Locust Point.
In it, a suddenly inspired pope, receiving Francis and his tattered band in a sumptuous throne room, descends from papal perch and pomp to embrace the popular, itinerant preacher ? and momentarily seems to want to shuck power and pressure to join him.
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