Vatican hosts conference on Disability and Catechesis
(Vatican Radio) A global conference will open in Rome on
Friday looking at best practices to help people with disabilities fully engage
in the life of the Church.
The event entitled "Catechesis and Persons with
Disabilities: A Necessary Engagement in the Daily Pastoral Life of the
Church", is being sponsored by the Pontifical Council for the
Promotion of the New Evangelization and partnered by The Kairos Forum, a UK based
organization that focuses on the spiritual and religious needs of people with
disabilities.
Over the course of the three day gathering 450 experts from
around the world will share their insights.
Lydia O’Kane spoke to Monsignor Geno Sylva, English language
official at the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization,
about the goals of the conference.
Speaking about how the conference came about, Mons Sylva
said, “this international conference is the fruit that was sewn during the
Jubilee (of Mercy) with all the other discussions that took place afterwards.”
He underlined that, “the aim and the goal is for us as a
Church and for this Pontifical Council to really learn what are the best
practices that are already taking place throughout the world in catechizing
people with special needs …”
The Church and Disability
But, Mons. Sylva also added that, what this conference is
also meant to do is to “highlight the responsibility that we have as a Church
to take into account the special needs for each of the baptized, so that we can
present to him or her the catechism, the catechesis of our Church in a way that
they can receive it; they can grasp the elements of it .”
The global conference, "Catechesis and Persons with
Disabilities: A Necessary Engagement in the Daily Pastoral Life of the
Church", will run from the 20th to the 22nd of October at the Urbaniana
University in Rome.
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