In the early 1960s my superiors sent me to Belgium to Louvain University to complete a doctorate in philosophy on the philosophy of Maurice Blondel. On my return to the USA after several months in the hospital I entered the Society of Jesus. My constant prayer from that moment to this is ‘Lord grant me the grace to know what you want from me and grant me the courage to be able to do it!’ I date my vocation to the priesthood to that moment. Here was a human who risked his life to feed me a stranger. In response he made the sign of the cross. On one occasion a slave laborer on a farm saw how close I was to starvation and risked his life to throw me a potato meant for the animals. I was captured by the Germans at the Battle of the Bulge and spent the last six months of the war as a prisoner of war. When I was 17, I enlisted in the US Army and went into combat against Germany. Born into a devout Irish Catholic family, I accepted the roman catholic teaching and prayed for the grace to live a celibate life. I was aware of my homosexual orientatiom since early childhood. This book has not yet been published in Italian. I have published an autobiography, Both Feet Firmly Planted in Midair My Spiritual Journey. So I hope you will join me with a prayer to God’s Holy Spirit to help me. I am 85 years old and my memory is not the best. Interview with Lidia Borghi, translated by Marius,
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