Catholic Theology and Disability Symposium

NCPD’s Catholic Theology and Disability Symposium

Recovering What Was Lost

Held at Notre Dame

McGrath Institute for Church Life

July 11-14, 2024

The ten scholars were accompanied by Charleen Katra, Executive Director, Leo Zanchettin, Board Chair, Bishop Brendan Cahill, Diocese of Victoria in TX, Board Member, and Annemarie Starr, Symposium Intern.

Next steps will be to have the collection of papers published.

Related Disability or Ministry:

Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD)

Program Type:

College and University Partnerships

Language:

English

Disability & Catholic Theology: A Practical Guide & Primer Or, How to Think Theologically About Disability

Dr. Miguel J. Romero, Saint Louis University
Associate Professor of Theology
Previous NCPD Board Member

The Body Has Reasons That Reason Cannot Know: Embodiment and Liturgical Participation in Romano Guardini

Dr. Timothy P. O’Malley, Associate Director for Research, McGrath Institute for Church Life
Academic Director, Notre Dame Center for Liturgy
Professor of the Practice
Director of Education, McGrath Institute for Church Life

The Embodied Imago Dei, Prayer, and St. Teresa of Avila

Dr. Jana M. Bennett, University of Dayton
Chair, Department of Religious Studies

All of Me. One of Us. The demand made by those living at the edges of the human condition.

Archbishop Peter A. Comensoli, Archdiocese of Melbourne, Australia
Archbishop of Melbourne

A Magisterium of Fragility: is there a space for disability leadership in the Church to come?

Dr. Talitha Cooreman-Guittin, Freiburg University, Switzerland
Chair Pastoral Theology, Religious Formation and Homiletics

Working in the Same Vineyard: how the experience of disability can lead to a theology of hope for us all.

Dr. Pia Matthews, Saint Mary's University, England
Senior Lecturer

Are There Failed Persons?

Dr. John O’Callaghan, University of Notre Dame
Associate Professor of Philosophy

In the "Beginning": Original Unity of Men & Woman as Starting Point for a Consideration of Human Sexuality in Persons with IDD

Dr. Mary O’Callaghan, University of Notre Dame
Visiting Fellow, Fiat Program on Faith and Mental Health
McGrath Institute at the University of Notre Dame
NCPD Board Member and Ethics & Public Policy Committee Chair

Finding Anna's Soul: Explorations in Theological Anthropology

Dr. Medi Ann Volpe, Wesley House Cambridge, England
Director of Research and Honorary Professor, Department of Theology and Religion
Durham University

Meaningful Work for People on the Autism Spectrum: Catholic Resources for a Contemporary Problem

Dr. Michael M. Waddell, St. Mary's College
Director, Master of Autism Studies Program
& The McMahon Aquinas Chair in Philosophy