Developmental Disabilities and Sacramental Access: New Paradigms for Sacramental Encounters - Softcover

Anderson, Herbert; Bergant, Dianne; Foley, Edward

9780814622803: Developmental Disabilities and Sacramental Access: New Paradigms for Sacramental Encounters

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ISBN 10: 0814622801 ISBN 13: 9780814622803

Publisher: Liturgical Pr, 1880

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Is a developmental disability an appropriate reason to bar a baptized person from the sacraments? This is the disturbing question that generated this book. The pastoral reality is that Roman Catholics with developmental disabilities are often barred from sacraments. Sometimes they are subject to discrimination or face unusual obstacles in the sacramental life of the Church. This volume, collaboratively written by pastoral theologians from Catholic Theological Union and the Special Religious Education Office of the Archdiocese of Chicago, addresses these issues. Punctuated with true stories of shame and triumph, this volume grapples with real issues that daily confront Catholics with developmental disabilities. With a breadth of scholarship that ranges from biblical perspectives to ethical and canonical issues, the authors demonstrate how people with developmental disabilities need to be embraced by the Church and its sacraments, for they teach us a fundamental truth about sacramental encounters. Contributors: Edward Foley, Capuchin; Dianne Bergant, C.S.A.; Barbara Reid, O.P.; Paul J. Wadell, C.P.; Mark R. Francis, C.S.V.; John M. Huels, O.S.M.; Mary Therese Harrington, S.H.; Herbert Anderson. "This book came as a most welcome surprise, describing and commenting on issues in this area, which need to be brought to the attention of the ordinary person in the pew and people who could change attitudes and practices?thus benefiting the whole community." Liturgy

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