Dolcino we miss you

I have used this title because it is seems think of Wicliff(died 1384) when he spoke about clergy in his pamphlet De duobus generibus hereticorum, where he said:”Two are kind of heretics whose British we must clean. The first are simoniacs, that are the all popes, bishops, priest because they have took richness of Christ…”, these seems the words of Dolcino(1250-1307)  from Novara, a city in Italy, he was a layman has been called Fra Dolcino, and he wanted that the Church was very poor, without richness, without money and other. He was a very medieval utopian because the Church have to money and richness for prestige and power in front of imperators and kings. But idealism of Wyclif continues in the other pamphlet De perfection statu, and he converses about morality and perfect moral and behavior of monks, and he sys that: “…monks especially they must tend to perfect order(interior order) because they have faith, and it let them perfection, in fact they say that their interior order was more than bishop and popes, and it suggests that his order if more perfect, because Christos has ordered, and it is evident that monk must feel, in conformity of act of Saint Hironimus .But Wyclif is also pragmatic man because he is rational and very logic, because he said: “Before go in to his order he has chosen this life, and anyway he has passed four orders, therefore he given responsibility to monk; and we must consider also that Wyclif calls the Church as saint Roman Church; we could ask to him: “Why do you so call the Church? Some pamphlet after you have accused it for corruption and other, why it is Saint Church?”. Answer I think that could be very random and insuffient, and we could consider him alone a professional polemist, but without wit of true religion.

Alessandro Lusana