![]() ![]() He soon discovered that he was not doing something for them, but that they were making a home together. He visited an institution and befriended two men, who he invited to leave the hospital and live with him in a house north of Paris. But then, in 1964, through friendship with a French priest he became aware of the plight of thousands of people institutionalized with intellectual disabilities. He considered priesthood, but decided on an academic career, which included a doctorate on Aristotelian ethics and a budding teaching career. He took a Royal Navy commission, which he left in 1950 to pursue a spiritual calling. ![]() He was profoundly moved when he and his mother went to assist survivors of the Nazi concentration camps. His family fled Paris just before Nazi occupation, and he spent much of the war as a young student in the British Naval Academy. ![]() He was born in 1928 to Canadian diplomats in Europe. His story is worth telling, and his words worth taking to heart. ![]()
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