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• By OCCatholicDeaf
• August 21, 2021 3:40 pm
• ASL, Christian Deaf Ministry, Deaf Community, Deaf Religious Education

Deaf Catholics Shaping the Church today. “Deaf people have created vibrant communities around the world, including active faith communities that contribute to a globally diverse Church. How do Deaf Catholics use language, community and culture to experience the faith?Lana Portolano, author of the newly published “Be Opened: The Catholic Church and Deaf Culture” (CUA Press, 2020) and Professor of English at Towson University, Maryland, joins College of the Holy Cross Deaf Studies Professor Stephanie Clark, an expert on Deaf culture, and Rev. Joseph Bruce, S.J., Archivist with the Deaf Catholic Archives at Holy Cross and the first Deaf Jesuit priest, for a discussion at the intersection of Catholic life and Deaf culture. Thomas M. Landy, Director of the McFarland Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture at Holy Cross, moderates.The discussion, held February 24, 2021, is part of Catholics & Cultures, an initiative of the Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J. Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. Learn more at https://www.catholicsandcultures.org.#DeafCatholics #CatholicsandCultures #HolyCross””

Deaf Catholics Shaping the Church today is a growing phenomenon in the United States and around the world. More and more Deaf are being baptized into the Catholic Church. We are actively collecting into our database every Catholic Church that supports the Deaf community. We are doing this because we know that Deaf Catholics Shaping the Church today.