text: Joan, thank you for encapsulating so very well the gist of Franciscan Theology.  Too many people believe that there is ONE and only ONE theological teaching [That of Thomas Aquinas]that is accepted by the Catholic Church. But both Duns Scotus and St. Bonaventure taught that each person is capable of being transformed by love.  That all of creation, every creature---and certainly humanity---is capable of being transformed by love.  And that when all are united by a luminous thread of love, Christ will be visible to the universe.