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Go Through Doors of New Possibilities
Helen Keller was deaf and blind from early childhood, yet she became one of the great humanitarians of the 20th…
Browsing: Disability, Sickness & Suffering
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An Open Discussion About Suicide Might Save Someone’s Life
Funny, talented, wealthy, generous, admired people aren’t supposed to want to die. People are supposed to live beyond the age…
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Book Review: Mortal Blessings
I am a daughter of aging parents. While I don’t know the day or the hour, I know that the…
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Including People with Schizophrenia
My wife, LaRee, never knew her maternal grandmother: Her name was Dora and she suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. Dora was institutionalized in…
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A Path to Freedom and Peace for Young People With Addiction
The culture of death has many pillars and many faces. One such pillar, surely is the tragedy of drug and…
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Including People With Downs
A Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) news blog featured a story about A new line of clothing for people with Downs…
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Why I Keep Returning to the Music of Beethoven
In the great treasury of music, I keep finding myself coming back again and again to Beethoven. You may think…
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Our Children Radiate the Joy of the Gospel
I was recently reading about an upcoming conference at the Vatican entitled “The Pastoral Project of Evangelii Gaudium” to implement…
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Be Not Afraid! St. John Paul II’s Key to Building a Culture of Life
The recent canonization of Saint John Paul II offers an impetus to reflect on both his life and his papacy.…
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A Market for Disability: Down Syndrome and the Economic Imagination
In a powerful profile of his son Jamie, a young man with Down syndrome, Michael Be?rube? explores some of the key challenges…