Brother to All: The Life and Witness of St. Charles de Foucauld

Joseph Victor Edwin, SJ, is Director of the Vidyajyoti Institute of Islamic Studies in New Delhi, India.

Without St. Charles de Foucauld, the Catholic Church’s current positive stance toward Muslims would likely not have materialized. These essays help us understand this holy man and his important legacy, and inspire us to live alongside Muslims as spiritual siblings, as Foucauld did.- Jordan Denari Duffner, author of Islamophobia: What Christians Should Know (and Do) about Anti-Muslim Discrimination

“A compelling exploration of the fascinating, complex, and, in truth, perplexing, dimensions of this newly canonized saint’s life of complete abandonment of all to God. The authors emphasize again and again how Foucauld, a privileged son of aristocracy, having nothing less than a profligate youth, somehow succeeded as a military officer in France’s North African colonial action, but was then moved by grace to embrace a contemplative hermit’s life. He embodied a humble spirituality by offering a simple, affable and kind presence among Muslim tribespeople, accompanying them in their cultural ways, enduring the hardships of desert life, and recording and preserving their language as a legacy.”--John Borelli, Georgetown University