Charles de Foucauld, a French aristocrat and former military officer, recovered his Catholic faith—inspired in part by the Muslim piety he witnessed in N Africa. On pilgrimage to the Holy Land he vowed to emulate the witness of Jesus—a carpenter in Nazareth—...
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who embodied the gospel before announcing it in words. “The whole of our lives should cry the agospel from the rooftops...Not by our words but by our lives.” He lived as a desert hermit in Algeria as a “little brother of Jesus” until he was killed by Tuareg rebels on 12/1 1916.
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I appreciate this memorial about my father by @ggrenwald above any I have read today--for his comprehensive review of his bio & history, for his attention to themes generally overlooked about his post-Vietnam life, but particularly for deep appreciation of his human qualities.🙏
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Here's my @RollingStone article on Daniel Ellsberg, the heroic Pentagon Papers leaker who died today at 92:
"We’re Told Never to Meet Our Childhood Heroes. Knowing Daniel Ellsberg Proved That Wrong"
rollingstone.com/politics/polit
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