I use a motorized wheelchair and communication device because of my disability, cerebral palsy. Parishes were not prepared to accommodate my needs nor were they always willing to recognize my abilities.
Disabilities
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Pope Francis called the internet ‘a gift from God.’ In Netflix’s ‘The Remarkable Life of Ibelin,’ it’s a gift used well.
“The Remarkable Life of Ibelin” presents the internet as a place where true connection is possible and limitations can be transcended.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Review: In ‘Super/Man,’ Christopher Reeve shows us how heroic vulnerability is
The documentary “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story” shows us how the man beneath the cape embraced off-screen heroism by accepting his own vulnerable humanity.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Comedian Matt Rife’s crowd work depends on marginalized people in the audience in ‘Walking Red Flag’
Rife’s humor of the quick, off-the cuff variety is best suited to these more conversational modes of presentation. He is lucky that he has a gift for improvisation and interacting with crowds, because his straight up standup is pedestrian.
Posted inFaith, Features
Catholic disability ministry is personal to me. Here’s where it’s thriving today—and where it still needs to grow.
People with intellectual and developmental disabilities have a part to play in the church’s work.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
‘Made in God’s image and likeness’: An introduction to disability theology
If we wish to embrace Christian belief and practice, our theological conversation must include open discussions of disability—including how the notion of ‘imago Dei’ is used in our theological considerations of what it means to possess infinite dignity.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Students with Down syndrome belong in our Catholic schools
Our parish school has decided that welcoming children with significant disabilities is an important part of its Catholic identity and a big part of forming all children to be disciples of Jesus Christ.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Catholics, socialists and disability advocates all have concerns about Ireland’s proposed family amendments
The misogynistic language of the old Constitution may be removed, but in its place will be clauses that relinquish the state of any real responsibility to support family caregivers, critics say.
Posted inFaith, Jesuit School Spotlight
A Jesuit high school pilots a program for students with disabilities
At De Smet, students with disabilities attend four classes with their peers, including physical education/health, theology, art and music.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
My wheelchair confines me. But it also liberates me.
Where my disability was once restrictive, I now see it as liberating and redemptive.