So committed is Pope Francis to embracing “the other” that his encyclical “Fratelli Tutti” addressed our bitterly divided world. One line from it can sum up his papacy and the legacy of his namesake, St. Francis: “We encounter the temptation to build a culture of walls to prevent this encounter with other cultures, with other people. And those who raise walls will end up as slaves within the very walls they have built.”
That is advice worth following. If the walls we build around us are too high, light cannot reach us. We will never see the Promised Land, a world without borders, where all of God’s beloved—regardless of skin color, creed, or country of origin—are welcomed.
—Christopher Heffron, “The Noble Pursuit of Conversion”
St. Anthony Messenger, June/July 2022 issue
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