September 11: SERVANT OF GOD WILLIAM ATKINSON: Called Anyway

Servant of God William Atkinson became a quadriplegic before he ever became a priest — then became the Church's first quadriplegic priest anyway.

An eighteen-year-old novice when a tobogganing accident left him paralyzed from the neck down, William trusted that God's call on his life hadn't disappeared. In 1974, with special papal permission, he was ordained — going on to spend thirty years as a beloved chaplain and theology teacher.

"What his body could no longer do on its own, God found a way to accomplish through him anyway."

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