Making room: Catholics with disabilities hope synod will hear their voices
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Giulia Cirillo gives Pope Francis a report from Catholics with disabilities on Sept. 21, 2022. / Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, Sep 21, 2022 / 07:25 am (CNA).Catholics with disabilities delivered to Pope Francis on Wednesday a report they prepared for the Synod on Synodality.The document was a synthesis of an online listening session held in May with 35 people with disabilities, coming from 20 countries and spanning five continents."I think the big message, which I think is being heard now, is that people who are disabled are actually full members of the Church," Father Justin Glyn, a Jesuit priest from Australia, told CNA Sept. 21.Glyn, who is blind, said there is a history in the Catholic Church of seeing people with disabilities as "recipients of charity, objects of pity.""Whereas I think now the message is very much that we are full participants in the Church, we are people who are part of a Church that walks together synodally," he added. The report
Giulia Cirillo gives Pope Francis a report from Catholics with disabilities on Sept. 21, 2022. / Vatican Media
Rome Newsroom, Sep 21, 2022 / 07:25 am (CNA).
Catholics with disabilities delivered to Pope Francis on Wednesday a report they prepar.