Education and Training

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Nourishing Dreams

For a fraternity and social friendship that goes beyond words, according to Pope Francis

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Disney, My Way: A Summer Camp Full of Joy and Friendship

My experience at the “Bicoca 2” camp — a story of growth, laughter, and new beginnings

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Living in Color

My Summer Camp with Faith and Light

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How a Magazine Issue Comes Together

A comic strip guide: from idea to print at Ombre e Luci

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Have You Ever Tried...

Without hope, life has no meaning

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Hope in Many Keys

With hope, we can trust, live in communion and peace, walk—and pedal—together.

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I Never Miss a Meeting

When there's something special happening, I only see the people I know in that moment

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Fanny, who sees a future for herself

Me, my sister and the augmentative writing

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A School Where No One Is Different

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I Don't Know What to Expect

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Children Are Hope

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How I've Changed Over the Years

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Choose Your Words with Care

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Do You Have a Favorite Child?

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Real Connection

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Welcoming the Surprise

Interview · Education

Disability: A Border to Cross

Open Dialogue · Education

Open Dialogue No. 118

From your perspective: suggestions, comments, criticism of the magazine... problems and questions

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Snapshot

The stories in this issue are stories of volunteering

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Eat Well, Sleep Well—and Connect with Nature

For most children who have tried it, gardening outdoors beats video games hands down.

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Sexuality and Disability: A Garden of Desire

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Love, Desire, and Disability

We've touched on this theme before—never thoroughly enough. Here we gather some reflections we believe matter for understanding it better.

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Should Society Provide Sexual Assistance to Handicapped People?

Isn't the right to pleasure legitimate? Marie-Christine Marguet, a marriage and family counselor at CLER, responds to our questions.

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Giovanni's Second Chance

A couple opens their hearts to an abandoned child with cerebral palsy—and discover that love changes everyone.

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How Should We Raise Our Children? A Mother Asks, a Mother Answers

Parents have debated how to educate young people for ages. Perhaps it's time we weigh what our children truly need against what consumer culture tells them they want.

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When Silence Speaks

Love is not easy to find or give: the harder you search for someone who matches your desires, the more you seem to be chasing the wind.

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Love and Disability: Don't I Have the Right to Love?

Anna talks often about marriage. She watches her brothers and sisters. A mother's struggles

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Love and Disability: Prey

Cristiano struggles with mental illness and is vulnerable in matters of intimacy and sexuality. His difficult path to recovery.

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Love and Loneliness: The Price of Independence

Girolamo's mild disability hasn't stopped him from living on his own and holding down a job. He has plenty of friends, yet he comes home to an empty apartment. His daily struggle.

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Sexuality and Disability: Traumatized

I find her lying on a bench in shock. The only explanation I can get is that Enrico rejected her.

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The Sexual Life of People with Disabilities: What Kind of Love?

Everyone has a sexual life. Saverio Lacroix—husband, father, physician, professor of moral theology, and dean of the Catholic University of Lyon—presents the Christian vision of love and sexuality.

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Living in Hope

I don't mean to preach about this virtue—others have done it better and long before me. I only want to discover the precious gifts that flow from it.

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Heaven

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The City of Leonia

Building a society with a future—for us and for generations to come

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I Choose to Believe...

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The Time to Understand

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How to Teach Your Child

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Learning Together, Growing With Others for the Good of All

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Say Hello to Your Teacher

A young trainee's delicate path through nursery school: the story of Agnese and her parents, navigating difficulty and small joys on the road to social belonging

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What Comes Next?

A mother's worries about her adult son's future work and independence. One family's testimony on the dignity of labor and the power of inclusion.

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Teaching Disabled Children to Eat: Building Independence and Community at the Table

Practical advice for parents and caregivers who want to help their children grow.

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Milan and Clear Vision: A Reflection for Our Movement

If it's hard to bring the night to account, isn't this the very path we must walk toward growth?

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Teaching Children with Disabilities to Dress Themselves

A few simple suggestions in hopes they might help parents

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Very Young People n.7

The boys from Casa Il Bosco in Cuneo have written us their testimony of the pilgrimage to Rome in 1975

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Very Young Friends—Together No. 5

Two more young volunteers from Vercelli share their experiences with the children at Centro Sant'Eusebio.

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Very Young Members, No. 3

Ilaria and Lucia, both fourteen, share their first experience at a Faith and Light gathering

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Two Young Friends

Their experience, in their own words

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A Letter to Young People

We speak often of altruism and generosity, of love between peoples. Yet too often these remain beautiful words we fail to make real.

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Sexuality and Disability: Don't Wait to Talk About It