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Pope Leo XIV greets sick and disabled people, including a young child in a wheelchair, in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall after the Wednesday general audience on Sept. 10, 2025.

Catholics with disabilities reflect ahead of International Day of Persons with Disabilities

Dec 3, 2025

By Tessa Gervasini

Catholic adults with disabilities talked about how faith guides their lives and how dioceses and individuals can better accommodate and... Read more

At a Catholic symposium on disability ministry, attendees gather for a talk by Dr. Miguel Romero as part of a theological engagement on disability. The symposium, “Recognizing the Body of Christ: A Theological Engagement on Disability” was held at The Catholic University of America on Nov. 9, 2019.

More than inclusion: How Catholics are renewing disability ministry

Aug 7, 2025

By Kate Quiñones

About 200 Catholic ministers, leaders, and laypeople have gathered in Salt Lake City for the National Catholic Disability Ministry Conference... Read more

Pope Francis meets on April 29, 2023, with children and adults who are visually impaired and have other disabilities at a Catholic institute in Budapest, Hungary, dedicated to Blessed László Batthyány-Strattmann.

Catholic organizations host seminars on disability and inclusion in the Catholic Church 

Mar 13, 2024

By Kate Quiñones

The University of Notre Dame’s McGrath Institute for Church Life and the National Catholic Partnership on Disability (NCPD) are hosting... Read more

Bishop James Conley of Lincoln distributes Communion during his Mass of Installation, Nov. 20, 2012.

Catholic mental health council applauds Bishop Conley’s candor on mental illness

Nov 23, 2020

The National Catholic Partnership on Disability’s Council on Mental Illness applauded Bishop James Conley of Lincoln, Nebraska “on his complete... Read more

Linden Cameron.

Linden Cameron shooting ‘devastating,’ Catholic disability group says

Sep 27, 2020

By JD Flynn

The director of a Catholic organization focused on the needs of people with disabilities said Wednesday that the police shooting... Read more

Jan Benton.

Meet Jan Benton - leading the charge for inclusion of Catholics with disabilities

Oct 30, 2019

By Christine Rousselle

When Janice Benton was attending college in Michigan, she answered an ad in her parish bulletin that was seeking someone... Read more

How one organization helps the Church welcome Catholics with disabilities

Dec 18, 2018

Around 14 million Catholics in the U.S. are living with a disability.  Read more