Resources for Educators: Dignity of People with Disabilities

“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

Church Documents:

• Welcome and Justice for Persons with Disabilities: A Framework of Access and Inclusion, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (1998).

Catholic Websites:

• National Catholic Partnership on Disability
• “How to Vote Catholic: Healthcare,” CatholiCity.com.

Articles:

• “Life Matters: Persons with Disabilities” (2011).
• Dennis C. McNulty, D.Min., “Disability Ministry and Catholic Social Justice Principles” (March 2011).

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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