#16: His Life’s Mission
When we hear about tragic things happening to people that we don’t know, it can be easy to brush it aside. We understand that it’s a tragedy, but it’s less work to just shrug and say that that seems like something that doesn’t affect you personally.
But that’s not what this priest did. When he heard about the tragic suicide of a young girl—an event that could have been prevented if she’d had a proper sex education class—he didn’t just turn away and figured that since he didn’t know the girl, it wasn’t his problem. He let it inspire him to advocate for sex education and to create a way to help people understand their bodies.