I've been "Catholic-adjacent" all my life, having majored in Medieval/Reformation history back when Middle English was a living language :) The Franciscan movement of the 13th centuries (forward) was brilliantly an urban phenomenon that addressed urban poverty -- at a time when urbanization was exploding in Europe. Reformation Protestantism recreated Christianity from Jesus-centric (" ... go and do likewise") to sin-centric with its essential spiritual narcissism. If you look at the theological…