An Old Poet’s Advice to the Pope

January 8, 2026 by Kateri

The Parson in the Ellesmere manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is seen against a background of St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican.

From a muddy parish road to the Chair of Peter, Chaucer’s vision of priestly holiness still speaks with bracing clarity.

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