A sound of awe murmured through the audience at the Quinquennial Congress Thursday evening (June 30).
“That’s the same thing I said,” he responded to the crowd. Of course, he told the editor, “yes!”
Fr. Murray Bodo, OFM |
That book, Francis: the Journey and the Dream, sold 300,000 copies. That was 1972 – and it launched a 31-book writing career.
He appeared at the Q to thank Secular Franciscans for being among his most avid readers – and to share a few words from his latest work, his autobiography, Gathering Shards: A Franciscan Life.