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From a recent Zenit news article, I learned something that I never knew before: “It is estimated that there are 1.3 million deaf Catholics, “The prelate,” according to Zenit said, “estimated that in developed countries, one child A liturgical resource for helping the deaf is Joan Blake’s Signing the Scriptures<\/i>:<\/p>\n Year A<\/a>, Year B<\/a>, Year C<\/a><\/p>\n Plus, there’s the DVD Tips and Techniques for Signing the Scriptures<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From a recent Zenit news article, I learned something that I never knew before: “It is estimated that there are 1.3 million deaf Catholics, and the Vatican is intent on ensuring that they can fully participate in the Church.” Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski, president of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Ministry, gave this statistic at his … Continue reading Deaf Catholics: finding room for the deaf in the Church<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,17],"tags":[1906,2233,1713],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25095"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nand the Vatican is intent on ensuring that they can fully participate in the
\nChurch.” Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski,
\npresident of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Ministry<\/a>, gave this statistic at his department’s 24th international conference meeting this week in Rome. The conference’s theme is “Ephphata: the Deaf
\nPerson in the Life of the Church.”<\/p>\n
\nout of 1,000 is deaf, but the problem is more serious in poor countries, where
\n80% of the world’s deaf live. In these cases, deafness is often the result of
\ninsufficient medical care and lack of medication.” He indicated “the need to help people with
\nthis impairment, precisely as ‘the world has begun to overcome the
\nprejudices and superstitions linked to physical disability.'”<\/p>\n