The Chicago native, 65, told a Rotary Club luncheon Wednesday how he was diagnosed with polio. «The big problem I had at 13 was … I couldn’t do a lot of things that I was looking forward to,» he said.
The cardinal, who wears a brace on his leg, still occasionally battles feelings of resentment because of his disability. «But a life of resentment is a crippled life,» he said.