"the entire Church, from the Pope down, exists to make lives of that kind possible"

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"'You are completely right.  If you had seen that saint in his lifetime you would not have looked at him twice.  He was exactly like one of the lay brothers who waited on us at dinner.  Yet the entire Church, from the Pope down, exists to make lives of that kind possible.'"

      A Maryknoll priest to Kenneth Scott Latourette just after the canonization of "a humble Bavarian lay monk" at the Vatican in the mid-1940s.  Beyond the ranges:  an autobiography (Grand Rapids, MI:  Eerdmans, 1967), 113.