At their summer 2023 USCCB General Assembly, the bishops voted to approve the drafting of a new Pastoral Statement on persons with disabilities. The Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life, and Youth chaired by Bishop Robert Barron has been assigned...
Hopefully this is the rare church architecture post that will be well-received by Catholics and other Christians across the ideological spectrum. An article that appeared in the National Catholic Reporter last week, “Disabled Catholics praise pope’s example in publicly using...
The Mahayana Buddhist scripture Vimalakirti Nirdesa, also known as the Vimalakirti Sutra, contains one of the most radical ascetic statements in any religion’s canonical texts. The main figure of the text, Vimalakirti, is feigning illness so that he can preach...
In this installment of the “Loneliness Today” series, I would like to talk about loneliness among disabled people.[1] This is a topic that a few regular commenters have brought up in the comment sections on previous essays in this series;...
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