Thrilled that Pope Francis gives the last word in his encyclical to Bd. Charles de Foucauld, who "expressed his desire to feel himself a brother to every human being, and asked a friend to “pray to God that I truly be the brother of all”. . . .
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"He wanted to be, in the end, 'the universal brother.' Yet only by identifying with the least did he come at last to be the brother of all. May God inspire that dream in each one of us. Amen." For more on Foucauld: americamagazine.org/faith/2005/11/
