Family Life

“Just as the Church must do all in its power to help ensure persons with disabilities a secure place in the human community, so it must reach out to welcome gratefully those who seek to participate in the ecclesial community.”  Pastoral Statement of the U.S. Catholic Bishops on Persons with Disabilities

Catholic Websites:

• "How to Vote Catholic: Health Care," CatholiCity: The Catholic Church Simplified
• McNulty, Dennis C.  "In God's Image: Disability Ministry and Catholic Social Justice Principles."  Church Access for Persons with Disabilities.  May 4, 2009.
• Welcome and Justice for Persons with Disabilities: A Framework of Access and Inclusion.  Statement of the U.S. Bishops.  National Catholic Partnership on Disability.
• Pastoral Statement of the U.S. Catholic Bishops on People with Disabilities.  National Catholic Partnership on Disability.  Nov. 16, 1978.

Ecclesial Documents (Bishop/ Vatican)

Doerflinger, Richard.  "Human Dignity in the 'Vegetative' State"

Additional Resources:

• Video, "99 Balloons"

• Video, “D-Pan Waiting for the World to Change” 

• Video, “Respect,” Produced by ARC of Virginia

• Video, “Talk” produced in the UK

• DVD, “Through Deaf Eyes,” produced by PBS

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