He was born and brought up in the Springburn area of Glasgow by his mother alone after his father left the family.
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However, throughout his life MacEwan had retained a deep love of the Catholic Church and, despite his earlier experience with the Jesuits, chose to abandon his fame and success to enter the Pontifical Scots College in Rome, to follow his vocation to become a priest.
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