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Special Needs &Amp; Disabilities

Aloysius Ford, who has Down syndrome, sits with classmates while listening to his kindergarten teacher during class at St. Patrick Catholic School in Tacoma, Wash., May 21, 2025. (OSV News photo/Stephen Brashear)

When it comes to serving students with disabilities, how are Catholic schools doing?

Maria Wiering|Jul 14, 2025|10 Min Read

NEC

Expert: God is 'strongly connected' to disability community, access to Eucharist is essential

Gina Christian|Jul 24, 2024|5 Min Read

(Shutterstock via CNA)

Group of Jewish parents sue state of California for equal access to special needs education

Tyler Arnold|Mar 15, 2023|3 Min Read

blindness

Physical vulnerability can be a resource for society, the church, pope says

Carol Glatz|Dec 12, 2022|2 Min Read

Disabilities

Being 'inclusive' of those with disabilities means valuing them, pope says

Cindy Wooden|Dec 3, 2022|3 Min Read

Pope Francis accepts a document on people with disabilities from Giulia Cirillo, a member of the Sant'Egidio community, at the end of the general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Sept. 21, 2022. People with disabilities submitted a draft document to the Synod of Bishops on the needs of people with disabilities and their contributions to the life of the church. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Making room: Catholics with disabilities hope synod will hear their voices

Junno Arocho Esteves|Sep 22, 2022|4 Min Read

People from more than 20 countries take part in a video call hosted by the Vatican Dicastery for Laity, Family, and Life on May 19, 2022. (Dicastery for Laity, Family, and Life Flickr photostream via CNA)

Vatican hosts synod listening session with disabled Catholics

Courtney Mares|May 20, 2022|2 Min Read

Pope Francis met with the Italian Autism Foundation in the Vatican's Clementine Hall on April 1, 2022. (Vatican Media)

Pope Francis advocates for inclusion of people with disabilities in society

Courtney Mares|Apr 1, 2022|2 Min Read

Abdelrahman Mohamed, 11, looks out at the sea from his wheelchair at the first public beach for people with disabilities in Alexandria, Egypt, July 17, 2021. Pope Francis issued a message for the Dec. 3 U.N. International Day of Persons with disabilities. (CNS photo/Mohamed Abd El Ghany, Reuters)

Pope: Discrimination against people with disabilities must end

Junno Arocho Esteves|Nov 29, 2021|3 Min Read

(Video Creative/Shutterstock via CNA)

Massachusetts advocates: Assisted suicide disproportionately threatens the poor, disabled, minorities

Christine Rousselle|Sep 30, 2021|4 Min Read

Heidi Crowter speaks outside the High Court in London England, July 6, 2021. (Don’t Screen Us Out/Flickr, CC BY-ND 2.0 via CNA)

Court rejects challenge to UK’s Down syndrome abortion law

Catholic News Agency|Sep 23, 2021|3 Min Read

Resident Dolores Gallego spends some quiet time in her bedroom at the Alas Foundation center for women with intellectual disabilities during the COVID-19 outbreak in Madrid in this June 16, 2020, file photo. The Pontifical Academy for Life has released a new document on how the pandemic has impacted people with disabilities and their caregivers. (CNS photo/Susana Vera, Reuters)

People with disabilities faced more barriers during pandemic, academy says

Carol Glatz|Jun 15, 2021|4 Min Read

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