The focus of the court’s documents is not on Charlie’s imminent death, but on his brain function.
Disabilities
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Disability without sentimentality: a stage actor’s journey
Well crafted stories about the “disabled experience” are still new, and too few-and-far between.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
“The disabled body is the whole body”: Lessons from parenting a child with a disability.
On this episode of “America This Week” Tim Reidy and Kerry Weber talk about the challenges, both big and small, faced by Christians beginning new stages in life. Two America articles— Tracey Wigfield’s “A Sorta Catholic’s Very Catholic Wedding” and Heather Kirn Lanier’s “My daughter has a disability. I don’t want Jesus to fix her”—provide […]
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
My daughter has a disability. I don’t want Jesus to ‘fix’ her.
On the subject of disability, I found a Jesus that is, frankly, disappointing.
Posted inPhilosopher's Notebook, Politics & Society
Is the right to abort a child with disabilities becoming a duty?
Erasing good news about people with disabilities can only encourage the choice to abort people with Down syndrome in the first place.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
A life of service is never easy. Having autism can make it even harder.
Looking back, I find it remarkable that I believed in God to begin with. Autism is a condition that does not allow for many gray areas in one’s worldview.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Video
Out of the Shadows: Disabilities and the Church
Pope Francis has called for a church that is more welcoming to people with disabilities. A unique program in the Archdiocese of Washington is living out this vision.
Posted inFaith, Features
How to make room in your parish for people with disabilities
It is likely that “you don’t see them because they don’t come.”
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
What I learned from working at the L’Arche community that Pope Francis visited
“Our eyes may be for judging, but our hearts are for knowing.”
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
Dignity of the Disabled
Two of the most stirring images of the Pope Francis center on a person with a disability.