Family

Family

No Longer Alone: A Mother’s Journey with Fede e Luce

Family

In the Storm, Yet Not Alone

Family

Two Days, Many Questions

The 2025 Jubilee for People with Disabilities: moments of spiritual grace shadowed by practical challenges and unmet needs

Family

Welcome at Rome's Gates

Don Luigi d'Errico's vision has taken root along the Via Ardeatina at Casale di Falcognana, a residential community for twelve people with disabilities

Family

In the Alleys of Naples

La Scintilla thirty-five years on: co-housing and training spaces for people with intellectual disabilities

Family

Swimming with Love… Again!

My second race this year was a relay event organized by AISM in Rome

Family

I almost gave up

The Story Behind My Third Gold Medal in the Pool

Open Dialogue · Family

An Open Conversation—For Pope Francis

Letters from our readers honoring Pope Francis

Editorial · Family

Small but Decisive

Consecrated women walking alongside people with disabilities: small lights that close gaps that matter

Family

The Tuscolana Is Not Dragoncello

A week with my sister Sara showed me how different our two neighborhoods really are

Testimonial · Family

More Than a Label

The personal and professional life of a woman with disability

Family

Finding Your People

Sharing your story with others who understand changes everything. It offers a kind of peace you cannot find alone.

Testimonial · Family

Welcome to the South

Can young people with disabilities have holidays without their parents?

Testimonial · Family

Two Weeks in Salento

A summer stay in Gallipoli with the Giuliaparla Association

Family

The Friends' Trattoria

A restaurant in the heart of Rome that fully integrates young people with disabilities into the workplace

Family

What Freedom Means

What does it mean to be free to love?

Editorial · Family

A Good Start

A story of "ordinary humanity"

Family

My First Bike Ride

A day cycling through nature

Family

Coffee or Pizza?

Eleven years after my mother's death, her absence still weighs heavily — especially in the absence of visitors at our door.

Family

A Keychain Just Like Mine

Benedetta Coppari on her days out

Family

Evenings That Shouldn't Happen—And One That Did

Caterina Bertolini, age twenty-two

Family

Better Than a Magic Wand

Lessons from Painful Moments

Family

A Photograph in Black and White

Luciana Spigolon reflects on her family's past, present, and future through a snapshot from the 1960s.

Interview · Family

Victories and Struggles

An interview with Luciana Spigolon, who lives with her sister and brother, both with serious disabilities

Family

Forty Years of Ombre e Luci

Celebrating four decades of a magazine that gives voice to the voiceless

Editorial · Family

Is Leisure Time Really Free?

A revolution also means a different evening—whether it's pizza, theater, or coffee

Family

Why Not Take a Vacation?

It was the beginning of a whole new life—new encounters, relationships, and possibilities for my brothers

Family

When Love Finds You

True love is a treasure beyond measure.

Family

Finding My Own Way: One Woman's Path to Independence

Antonietta shares a pivotal moment in her journey toward autonomy

Family

Pretend Waiter

For months now, I've barely worked at all

Family

Someone Who Doesn't Leave Us Out

The work of volunteer organizations like Sant'Egidio and Faith and Light

Family

I Met the Scooppiati

I interviewed the band's drummer, Daniele Ponziani, who shared quite a story

Family

My First Victory

Testimonial · Family

Brooke, My Special Friend

Every time I visit my brother, she's waiting for me behind the door

Family

Getting by, Hanging on

My work history keeps growing, but I haven't found the answer I was hoping for.

Testimonial · Family

All Briciola Needs Is Words

If my dog could talk, we'd have the longest conversations!

Testimonial · Family

Wherever I Am, He Is Too

My dog Aci gives me the strength to keep going

Editorial · Family

Beyond the Marketplace

In this issue, we trace the journey of "an ambitious, daring project that answers the spoken and unspoken hopes of many people still living in isolation"

Open Dialogue · Family

Open Forum No. 161

From Your Perspective: Suggestions, comments, and critiques for the magazine... problems and questions

Family

Professor Marie-Odile Rhethoré, 1930–2023

A pioneering geneticist and co-founder of the Institut Jérôme Lejeune, she devoted six decades to the care and dignity of people with intellectual disabilities.

Family

I've Decided to Lend My Voice

Antonietta Pantone launches her blog, sharing the everyday life of a woman in a wheelchair

Family

Proverbs on Friendship

Scripture offers us wise counsel in choosing friends. Here are verses that show how friends, chosen with care, become our greatest source of love, healing, joy, and encouragement.

Testimonial · Family

Finding the Other Within Me

At 34, living with cerebral palsy and an identical twin who is utterly different

Editorial · Family

Blank Pages

We still wonder how to fill our pages, what Faith & Light still means, what presence—or absence—of a friend can do in a life.

Family

I Like Going to the Sea

Testimonial · Family

A Path of Transformation

Family

Breaking the News of Death in Our Community

Testimonial · Family

"Dad, Where Are You?"

Silvia's father falls suddenly ill one night. Everyone is in shock. Silvia watches him leave in an ambulance, the siren's wail still ringing in her ears.

Editorial · Family

Why?

Open Dialogue · Family

Open Dialogue No. 157

Family

I Speak Only What I Know

Testimonial · Family

Ask Zampetta and Romeo

Testimonial · Family

The Art of Getting Back Up

Family

Pato Always Knows Where to Find Me

Testimonial · Family

The Evil of Indifference

Family

Adea's Joy

Family

I Cheered for Empoli

Testimonial · Family

The People Behind the Scenes

Family

Learning to Feel by Listening to the Sea

Testimonial · Family

Dear Roberto

Editorial · Family

Philippine

Christmas is waiting, welcoming, giving. These three words echoed in me as I read the small book "The Strength of a Fragile Life."

Interview · Family

An Interview with Matteo Mazzarotto and Ivana Perri

After thirty years running Il Carro, a residential community for people with severe disabilities, they receive Italy's highest honor

Testimonial · Family

The Immense Gift Called Vaccine

Family

I Wanted to Stop. But I Couldn't!

Interview · Family

The Magazine of Those Who Write with Their Eyes

Family

Beyond Labels: What Lies Beneath Adjectives

Family

Do We Dare Trigger the Avalanche?

Editorial · Family

Nine Dots

Family

Atypical – Newsletter No. 34

Family

Coming Home

Testimonial · Family

My Son Did Not Want to See Me Cry

Family

Journeys and Visions – Newsletter No. 33

Family

Beautiful but Useless: A Visit to Trigoria

Family

What Gets Under Your Skin — Newsletter No. 32

Family

Jesus's Answer

Family

4,300 Meters High — Newsletter n. 31

Family

The Monster That Ate Gerardo

Family

It's Good to Have a Place to Work

Editorial · Family

A Different Story Altogether

Testimonial · Family

After Passion Comes Resurrection

Family

A Cat, a Community, and Our Apartheid

Testimonial · Family

Already Our Son

Family

A School for Everyone — Newsletter n. 29

Testimonial · Family

Eva's Crime

The life of a Black woman, poor and disabled, who refused to be a victim

Testimonial · Family

Letter to Gennarino

Testimonial · Family

One Morning I Watched You Wake

Family

Cautious, Not Frozen

Family

Then Christmas Arrives — Newsletter No. 27

Family

"There's a Problem." We Face It Head-On.

I met Anna Claudia Cartoni years ago. She was the sister of a close friend, Roberto, who had autism and was in scouts with me.

Testimonial · Family

The Day I Became a Doctor

Testimonial · Family

Gospel, Imagination, and Intelligence

Family

Journey Through Italy - Newsletter No. 25

Testimonial · Family

Maybe There's a Reason

Testimonial · Family

Theater Is Play—and in Play, We Never Stop Growing

Testimonial · Family

The Year I Was Cast as the Nativity Cave

Family

The Stages of Life: For Some, But Not for All

Testimonial · Family

A Small Mountain Refuge

Testimonial · Family

"Mom, We're Not Alone"

Family

When Pictures Speak Louder Than Words – Newsletter No. 15

Family

Thursday Means Gnocchi

Family

How to Begin Changing Hearts and Minds

Family

Newsletter No. 14 — Full Speed, Then a Halt

Family

Celli's Caponata: A Recipe That Bridges Italy

Family

The Perfume of Apple Strudel

Family

A Signature Isn't Enough

Family

#StayingHome, This Time Like Everyone Else

Family

Why Must We Live Like This?

Family

Seeing Yourself in the Window

Family

Jillian Mercado's Revolution

Family

What Clothes Make of Us

Family

At Peace With Myself

Family

As Coco Chanel Knew

Testimonial · Family

Antonella's First Carnival

Family

Vittorio and Aunt Minni

Family

Those Years Between Boston and Chicago

Family

My Fall from the Horse

Family

My Cousin Paolo

Family

Newsletter No. 8 — When Darkness Is Complete

We remember Aktion T4 so that Memorial Day truly honors all victims. Plus: the Dokita project in Cameroon; new pieces on film and disability; and Benedetta tackles gossip.

Family

When the Darkness Is Complete

Family

In Memoriam Aktion T4: The Exhibition

Family

In the South Curve

Family

A Crack in the Wall

Testimonial · Family

How We Look at Disability

Editorial · Family

Shaken and Transformed

Family

The Workshop: Where Good News Gets Made

Family

A Catalog of Good Things

Family

Toward a Theology That Does Not Disable

Family

The Alphabet We're Missing

Family

An 18-Year-Old's DIY Ramps: Using a 3D Printer to Break Down Barriers

Family

Veneto's First Co-Housing Project Opens Its Doors to People with Disabilities

Family

Supporting Parents: Forlì Launches Group Sessions for Families of Children with Visual Impairment

Family

Stefan's Disability Pride: Comics, Art, and a Planet to Save

Testimonial · Family

The Kitchen Door Is Always Locked

Family

When Disability Meets Old Age: The Case of Il Carro

Family

Stories Worth Keeping

Family

A Workshop on Mental Disability in Adulthood Comes to Rome

Family

Emma's House: A Home for Disabled Young Adults to Live Independently

Family

I Don't Go to the Theater Much

Family

I'm Not Afraid Anymore—Because Sara Is My Best Friend

Family

MasterChef's New Recipe: Tenderness Without Pity

Family

A Place to Belong: Growing Old with Dignity

Family

Living Longer with Disability

Family

Disability Dialogue in Palermo

Family

Through You: Free Screening of Documentary on Siblings of People with Disabilities

Family

Disability Day: More Jobs, More Funding for Life After Care

Family

Angelo, a Fellow Traveler

Family

"Here I Am!"

Family

A Friendship That Changed Everything

Family

Freedom

Family

ANFFAS: Sixty Years Building the Future

Family

Extraordinary Lives

Family

#Vadoalmuseo: How a Bologna Museum Program Builds Independence for Young Adults with Intellectual Disabilities

Testimonial · Family

When Play Is Hard or Impossible

Open Dialogue · Family

Open Dialogue no. 143

Family

Texas's Amusement Park Built for Children with Disabilities

Family

Souhour: A Disabled Syrian Refugee Welcomed by a Lebanese Family

Family

Star Wars Comes to the Hospital

Family

Speechless: When Disability Becomes Comedy

Family

When Kindness Breaks: A Father's Story of the Swing at Montanelli Gardens

Family

How Many Do You Know by Name?

Family

The L'Aquila Model: Autism and Severe Disability

Family

Planning for Life After: Three Workshops on the Future Care Law in Carpi

Family

Words Matter

Testimonial · Family

What I Know About Social Media—And What I Think

Review · Family

Not the Child I Expected

Family

Extraordinary Weddings — Love Beyond Disability

Family

Aging with Intellectual Disability: New Challenges, New Horizons

Family

Caroline's Cart Arrives in Italy: A Shopping Solution for People with Disabilities

Family

The Oscars Celebrate Deaf Life: Best Short Film Tells a Deaf Girl's Story

Family

Airbnb Acquires Accomable: Opening Travel to Disabled Guests

Testimonial · Family

Tell Me Who You Admire

Family

Viola and Mimosa No. 140

A remarkable story of work and independence—proof that real inclusion of people with Down syndrome is possible

Family

Safe Surfing: How to Navigate the Internet Safely

Antonietta, a friend who uses a wheelchair, writes to us: The internet is fine up to a point. But when it's used excessively, it damages the way you interact with the world around you… especially Facebook.

Family

The New "After Us" Law: What Does It Actually Do?

Strong in principle and intent, but the November 2016 implementation decree reveals serious gaps in the resources needed to make it work

Interview · Family

The New "After Us" Law: Questions Still to Resolve

Editorial · Family

Inclusion: Everyday Solidarity

Family

A Place in the World

An Interview with Mariangela Lopizzo: mother of Carlo, who has autism spectrum disorder, and Chiara; wife of Vincenzo; and a special education teacher in a Roman middle school

Family

Living Ordinary Lives

Testimonial · Family

Simona and Me

A mother's story of discovering her daughter's disability, learning to accept it, and finding strength in community through Faith and Light

Interview · Family

Children Have Resistance—And That's Normal

Three questions for Laure Templier, psychologist and mother

Testimonial · Family

Teaching by Example

Laurence never made disability the focus of her daughter's education, never brought disabled children into her home—yet her quiet attention to difference bore fruit

Family

Viola and Occhiolino

Review · Family

My Brother Chases Dinosaurs: The Book and the Film

Editorial · Family

Called to the Finish Line: All of Us

Testimonial · Family

The Meaning of a Life and a Choice

Testimonial · Family

We Cannot Be Peter Pan Forever

Family

We're All Superheroes

Family

What Feminism Taught Me About Disability

Editorial · Family

Places of Relationship

Family

Friendship: A Gift Beyond Time

Family

The Warmth of Friendship

Family

The Greatest Gift

Perhaps, under the guise of taking photographs, she was preparing me for the hard choice of finding Elena a dignified future

Editorial · Family

Keepers of Hope

It has never been easy for anyone to speak openly about living with disability. For fathers, especially, it was harder still—and perhaps even more so in the past.

Testimonial · Family

The Hidden Side: What It's Really Like to Be the Father of a Disabled Child

Lorenzo's story of raising Simone, who has a rare genetic syndrome

Testimonial · Family

A View to Rediscover

Family

Being the Father of a Child with a Disability

From the outside, it seems like an unusual situation — but living it without rejection or bitterness turns out to be not so different from the life many other fathers lead

Testimonial · Family

My Son Luciano

He is my firstborn and he is my life. Even now, eleven years after learning our child would be disabled, I find it hard to speak about him.

Family

Humor and Disability: Treacherous Ground

Laughter is a sign of life, but what place does humor hold in a family living with disability? Can you laugh about disability itself? Isabelle, mother of a young man with Down syndrome, shares her story.

Family

A Wheelchair Among the Rubble

A folded, empty wheelchair lying in a sea of debris—an image that has haunted Viola for months now.

Open Dialogue · Family

Open Dialogue No. 127

From Your Perspective: Suggestions, Comments, Criticism for the Magazine... Your Problems and Questions

Editorial · Family

Get to Work!

Every time Ombre e Luci takes up the question of "work" for our young people, I'm torn between two opposite feelings

Family

Yolanda's Mimosas

Viola has renamed them "Yolanda's mimosas"—but Yolanda here is not the daughter of the Corsair she dressed as last Carnival. It is the Filipino name for Typhoon Haiyan.

Testimonial · Family

My Mother

Testimonial · Family

What Grit!

An interview with Nunzia, mother of Emanuela, who has bilateral temporomandibular ankylosis. Emanuela cannot move her jaw, cannot speak, cannot chew, struggles to swallow, and has a significant cognitive disability.

Testimonial · Family

Between Fear and the Need to Know

Virginia and her husband have pursued every possible avenue in search of a diagnosis and answers for their ten-year-old son Simone. The hardest part: fighting an invisible enemy.

Testimonial · Family

Sisters and Brothers of People with Disabilities

The struggles families face are not the parents' burden alone. Siblings too have borne greater responsibility and awareness, often without choice.

Testimonial · Family

An Institution... My God!

Sophie Lutz on the wrenching decision to move her daughter Philippine to residential care

Family

"The Invisible Care" — A Movement for Family Caregivers

A working group pushes for early-retirement legislation and fights for legal recognition of family caregivers

Family

Every Disabled Person Is Our Child: An Interview with Anffas

We spoke with Daniela Cannistraci, head of institutional relations and communications at Anffas, about life planning after parental care, family caregivers, and disability legislation in Italy.

Testimonial · Family

Jean-Christophe Parisot: A Seeker of God

At 45, Jean-Christophe Parisot lives with quadriplegia. He serves as France's highest-ranking government official with a disability, heading the office on marginalization.

Family

Add a Place at the Table—Adopting Children with Disabilities

Adopt a handicapped child? A mad scheme? Or a calling.

Testimonial · Family

Our Choice: Cristina

After 20 years of marriage and four children, Giacomo and Francesca opened their home to a girl with a disability

Testimonial · Family

I Can, I Must, I Want

Welcoming a child with disability has transformed our family completely. My husband Antonio and I, along with our other four children, would do it all over again—not once, but ten times, without hesitation.

Family

Your Children

What moves a couple to choose adopting a child with a disability?

Testimonial · Family

Voices from Mothers

Responses to our recent survey. We're grateful to share the thoughts, families, and experiences of our mothers readers—a glimpse into their lives, their hopes, and what sustains them.

Family

How to Be Present to Another Person

Drawing on her experience as a psychotherapist and her own encounter with illness, Nicolle Carré offers no easy answers—only wisdom about what it means to truly stand beside someone.

Testimonial · Family

"Mom, I'm Glad I Was Born"

A mother's letter about her son—a testament to love, faith, and the quiet dignity of a life lived fully

Editorial · Family

Grandparents: An Extra Measure of Tenderness

The editorial introducing our special issue on grandparents

Family

Grandma's Beautiful Girl

Two grandparents talk about raising Eleonora, their granddaughter with Down syndrome

Family

A Tenderness I Never Knew I Had

Family

When Your Grandchild Is in Your Care

Practical advice from Professor Marie-Odile Réthoré, member of the French National Academy of Medicine and medical director of the Jérome Lejeune Institute.

Family

Two Grandmothers on a Mission for Benedetta

Editorial · Family

Dear Mothers

We need to hear from you—to understand where you stand in your long and difficult journey alongside a disabled child.

Family

Rarina: A Rare Flower

The story of Rarina, born thirteen years ago with Freeman Sheldon syndrome

Interview · Family

Facing Down the Fear

Pietro's journey across Europe—a two-year mission to prove that someone with severe motor disabilities can do extraordinary things, challenging the world's limits and his own.

Testimonial · Family

What They Say About Them

Testimonial · Family

Friendship Across Inequality

Can we speak of true friendship when disability creates such vast inequalities and differences between two people? Father Nicolas Buttet, founder of the Eucharistein community—which welcomes young people in difficult circumstances—offers his reflection.

Testimonial · Family

Volunteering: A Lever for Life

After three months of this experience, I can say that I now look at the people I meet on the street in a different way.

Family

What to Do—and What Not to Do

A guide to genuine connection with disabled people

Interview · Family

Living with Dystrophy: An Interview with Myself

My name is Gaia Valmarin. I was born on May 17, 1967, and I want to share my perspective with you.

Family

Living with Muscular Dystrophy: Neuromuscular Disease

Testimonial · Family

Worlds Apart

I was right not to trust them. Schools are made by people. And I found the competent and caring ones just seven kilometers to the west.

Open Dialogue · Family

Open Dialogue No. 112

From Your Perspective: Suggestions, Comments, Criticism for the Magazine… Problems and Questions

Family

Breaking the Silence of Loneliness

Overcoming hesitation—whether by opening your home or stepping outside—opens the door to new friendships and rekindled old ones, especially when you're alone.

Testimonial · Family

Charles Hid Under the Table

Charles was nine years old and autistic when his father died. His mother describes how he reacted to the news and in the weeks that followed.

Family

At Grandfather's Funeral: "Why Did They Put Him in a Box?"

Family

When Dad Died, Charles Hid Under the Table

Family

A Spiritual Truth That Shatters Everything

L'Arche's national spiritual director insists that faith and hope do not erase the grief of losing someone we love

Family

When a Child Grieves: Understanding Loss from Birth to Age Nine

Family

Helping a Child Grieve

Family

A Letter to Jean

Testimonial · Family

He Stayed Behind for Me

Elena, living with cerebral palsy, remembers a priest she met during her studies—a man she deeply respects and loves as a father

Testimonial · Family

Silence

When faced with certain tragic news, the only honest response is to say nothing

Family

Did You Know...?

Curiosities, ideas, and tips for discovering new things about disability and beyond. Send us yours.

Editorial · Family

Being a Mother...

I couldn't have done it alone. We did it. All of us together.

Family

The Year of the Tiger Begins

Editorial · Family

Light in the Shadows

A Romanian mother's journey to Rome with her gravely disabled son, seeking the care his country could not provide

Testimonial · Family

The Intimacy of the Body: Sharing Your Child's Intimate Care

Sylvie de Kermadec, gynecologist, reflects on why respect for the body and privacy matter in raising a child with disability

Testimonial · Family

The Intimacy of the Body: Standing Before Nudity

A volunteer caregiver reflects on the delicate responsibility of her mission

Family

Life Among Siblings

Federico Girelli, the brother of a young woman with Down syndrome, shares his story and the founding of the Siblings Group

Testimonial · Family

Iron to the Magnet

Friends return from everywhere, drawn like iron to a magnet, toward the right pole—an attraction that cannot be resisted

Testimonial · Family

When Disability Goes Unmentioned

Reflections on a journalism seminar held in Turin last October

Family

Scouting and Disability: A Place for Maria Too

One scout leader's testimony as a mother raising a daughter with Down syndrome

Testimonial · Family

Scout Leaders Gather to Welcome a Child with Disabilities

How one group learned to include a twelve-year-old girl with intellectual disabilities

Testimonial · Family

Learning Disabilities: A "Clumsy" Child

Camilla is a "clumsy" child—a word that, until two years ago, I knew nothing about, like so many others

Testimonial · Family

Learning Disabilities: How I Discovered My Children's Suffering

Mother of six, including Arnaud and two others with dyslexia, Solange tells her story of fighting her children's school struggles

Testimonial · Family

Learning Disabilities: Who Is the Real Marco?

A Teacher's Account

Testimonial · Family

Enrico's Difficult Path

A mother's testimony—understanding the complexity of mental illness

Family

Scouting and Disability: A Path to Growth

A young woman from Rome shares her experience as both a scout and a member of Faith and Light

Editorial · Family

The Courage to Dare

Eight small stories offered here to bring you some light after this year's heavy rains, the earthquake's devastation, and the many sorrows that weigh on our lives.

Testimonial · Family

Small Steps, Safely

A community caring for children with severe medical conditions doesn't start out knowing what it's doing. Like any family, it learns through experience, practice, and the example of others.

Interview · Family

In the Spotlight, Never With a Prosthetic: An Interview with Cerrie Burnell

We're sharing Cerrie Burnell's interview with the BBC from February of this year

Editorial · Family

A Brother Helped by a Brother Is Like a Fortified City

Twenty years ago, siblings of people with disabilities suffered in silence. That is changing.

Family

The Land of Wonders

In Ostuni, in the province of Brindisi, La Nostra Famiglia's unit for child maltreatment offers refuge and healing to children who have survived family trauma.

Editorial · Family

You Cannot Do It Alone

Open your eyes, open your heart, and listen to those living in unbearable circumstances

Testimonial · Family

Why Me?

Disabled from birth, Cécile came to understand during adolescence that her spasticity set her apart.

Open Dialogue · Family

Open Dialogue No. 103

Your perspective: suggestions, comments, criticism for the magazine... the problems and questions on your minds

Family

Teenagers Abandoned to Fate

They are closer than we think—children no one wants. The story of Stefania

Open Dialogue · Family

Open Forum #102

Your Voice: Suggestions, comments, criticism for the magazine... the questions and concerns on your mind

Editorial · Family

Reaching Out to Parents of Children with Disabilities

I have learned, through my faltering attempts and my mistakes, that it is not easy work — and that good intentions and a kind heart are not enough.

Editorial · Family

With All My Heart

A letter to Mariangela on the occasion of Ombre e Luci's 100th issue, reflecting on decades spent alongside people with disabilities and their families.

Testimonial · Family

A Letter to Mothers and Fathers

Every Christmas I return to Emmanuel—"God with us"—the same name we chose for our disabled son an hour before he was born

Testimonial · Family

A Thunderbolt from Clear Skies

Our son has moved into a residential community. At last, the help we'd always hoped for has arrived—the solution we'd been counting on for when we're gone.

Family

Tell Me About Him: Why We Need to Share Stories About Others—and Ourselves

From the newsletter "La Nostra Famiglia" (July 2007). An article by Gianluigi Visentini, psychologist and psychotherapist

Editorial · Family

Mothers of Courage and Beyond

Long live the telephone! How could I have survived these thirty years without hearing the voices of the brave mothers who have kept Ombre e Luci alive?

Testimonial · Family

Salvatore, Pediatrician with Achondroplasia

A doctor who transformed the challenges of short stature into deep sensitivity and empathy for his young patients

Family

As If It Were the Most Natural Thing in the World

In Memory of Nicole Schultes, Founder of Ombre e Luci

Testimonial · Family

With All My Strength: Special Olympics Youth Games

"Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt." This is the Special Olympics athlete's oath.

Editorial · Family

Peace Bearers: Learning from Those with Down Syndrome

This issue is dedicated to people with Down syndrome, in the hope that we might learn from them the balance and trust they bring to those who suffer.

Family

When Those Close to You Turn Away

When Francesco was born—deaf and trapped in childhood psychosis—the indifference of our neighbors, our own family, shocked and angered us profoundly

Editorial · Family

When Everything Changes

The expectation of a child is one of life's most delicate moments for a couple, especially when they have welcomed this child with love and dreamed of him or her as the fulfillment of their love for each other.

Testimonial · Family

When Prenatal Diagnosis Becomes a Crisis

Elena goes alone for her first ultrasound with her second child. The doctor hints at something wrong: her baby will probably be disabled.

Testimonial · Family

Every March That Passes

As a doctor, I was privileged in how my colleague conveyed the difficult news about my unborn daughter's health

Family

Be There for Them: A Friend's Guide

Grandmothers, close friends, sisters-in-law often become confidantes to couples expecting a child with probable disability—and facing an agonizing choice. What do you say? What do you do?

Family

FANHA: When Families Say Yes to Children With Disabilities

An association offering concrete support to those who feel overwhelmed by the prospect of pregnancy and, especially, of caring for a disabled child.

Interview · Family

Loving a Mistake: An Interview with Patricia Bauer

A psychology professor exposes how society implicitly pressures women to abort disabled children once genetic testing makes detection possible during pregnancy

Family

Valeria Responds to Monica's Letter (Issue 93)

Calling all mothers and fathers ready to share—and find solace in—both the stumbles and the small victories that come with raising our children

Family

Give Her a Kiss

It's so easy for a couple to slip into conflict—pointless arguments about trivial things, each reproach building on the last, the tension escalating. And yet sometimes the smallest gesture is enough to break the spell.

Testimonial · Family

I Love This Child

Isabelle de Mézerac and her husband are expecting their fifth child when, at three months into the pregnancy, doctors announce that the baby has trisomy 18, a fatal handicap. They decide to accompany Emmanuel through to the end of his life.

Testimonial · Family

Friends You Never See Coming

And so you discover, with surprise and genuine pleasure, countless people—far removed from any religious community, with no special training, medical or spiritual—yet possessed of such spontaneous, genuine, and affectionate openness.

Family

We are dads of disabled children: a different way of love

We have collected the heartfelt testimonies of fathers who speak clearly and sincerely about how great and important their role is in welcoming and educating their child with a disability.

Editorial · Family

We Are Fathers of Disabled Children: A Different Way of Loving

Fathers speak openly and honestly about their vital role in welcoming and raising a disabled child—a role far deeper than most people recognize.

Family

A Father Reveals His Disabled Son's Unique Gift

An interview with Gilles Le Cardinal, professor of communication at the University of Compiègne, member of L'Arche, father of three, author of <i>Living Fatherhood</i>

Family

When Disability Tests a Family

How do you protect your marriage and your other children when one child is severely disabled?

Family

A Smack Like a Kiss: Time with My Disabled Son

Giovanni is seven, turning eight in February. He has multiple disabilities. He could have been perfectly healthy, but he didn't breathe enough at the moment of birth.

Family

An Unexpected Gift: Discovering His Talents

Mario Ferrini (53) talks about his son Matteo, 12

Family

Teaching Independence: Patience, Persistence, and Sometimes Toughness

A conversation with Rosario, father of Arianna (13)

Family

A Father's Fight: Giving Our Disabled Children Better Lives

Antonio's whole life is an effort to make Anita's days easier. "For me now, the problem isn't my daughter's disability—I've made peace with that. The real obstacle is something else."

Testimonial · Family

Every Child Is a Journey: A World to Discover, One Step at a Time

For the third time in as many days, I begin again to share the path that opened before me with the birth of my disabled son.

Family

Help Wanted: Support for Those Who Seem Not to Need It

Parents seeking to share both struggles and victories—the stumbles and breakthroughs that come with raising our children

Family

The Son We Didn't Expect

Family

The Father as Citizen

Family

Patience, Persistence, and When to Be Firm

Family

Smack as Kiss

Family

What a Father Discovers in His Disabled Son

Family

Parallel Paths

Editorial · Family

In the Name of the Father

This Christmas issue of Ombre e Luci (or shortly after!) we want to talk about fathers of children with disabilities—today, in 2005

Testimonial · Family

And the Carro rolls on... and turns 15!

Why, after 15 years of history, are we talking about an inauguration? We let a volunteer, Costanza (who is also my wife), tell us about it

Family

A World to Discover, One Step at a Time

Family

For Don Francesco: Thirty Years of Love

My journey with Don Francesco began around 1975, when my son Andrea—deaf-blind from birth—was preparing for his First Communion

Testimonial · Family

A Paradise Gone Wrong

A Fede e Luce volunteer reflects on eight years returning to a nursing home in Sighet, Romania—and what it taught her about dignity, disability, and the fragility of meaning.

Editorial · Family

Easter Means Passage

How do we respond without surrendering to empty resignation? How do we take up the path again, "casting our nets anew," trusting not in our own plans but in God's purpose?

Family

Oliviero's Story

Oliviero was seven years old when my husband and I welcomed this beautiful dark-eyed boy into our home for the first time....

Family

Conference Report: The Autistic Child

A two-day conference held October 29–30, 2004, brought together researchers and clinicians to examine current knowledge of autism's causes and therapeutic possibilities

Family

Raising an Autistic Child at Home: An Act of Love

More American families are choosing to keep their autistic children at home, working to integrate them into ordinary family routines and activities

Family

Autism: What Families Need to Know

Two parents of autistic children explain what it means to live with autism—and what society must do differently

Family

Give Your Children Something Different

What should parents actually give their children? When to say yes, and when to say no?

Testimonial · Family

This Christmas, Alberto Will Be with Family—But Not with Us

Describing what we felt when we learned that Alberto had been accepted into a group home should have been simple. It wasn't.

Interview · Family

Nicola Pintus and the Filippide Project

We met during a television program where he made a particular impression on me. I sensed immediately that he was someone special, and I wanted to know him better. That's how this interview came about.

Family

Employment for People with Down Syndrome

A practical guide to supported employment: information for companies, workers, and families — Edited by Alessandra Buzzelli and Anna Contardi

Testimonial · Family

Benedetta Changed Me

She came home after spending her first fifty days in the hospital. Not everything has been fixed, and not everything can be fixed. But that's more than fine.

Family

A Mother Asks: "How Do I Explain?"

How do you tell your children that at school they must welcome a classmate who is different, less interesting, less attractive—and treat him as if he were just like everyone else?

Open Dialogue · Family

Open Dialogue No. 86

From Your Perspective: Suggestions, Comments, Criticism for the Magazine... Questions and Concerns

Editorial · Family

Trembling Wait

Blue eyes veiled by held-back tears. A bright smile with lips trembling slightly. Hands folded in her lap, waiting. But something is wrong.

Family

The Art of Asking for Help

Family

The 5th International Conference on Autism – 1983

From Respite Care to Life Programs for Autistic Adults: Comparing Models – Bambini e Autismo Foundation – European Year of Disabled Persons

Testimonial · Family

Love and Disability: Veronica and Alessandro Get Married

Parents and friends speak about accompanying them and supporting them in this difficult choice

Testimonial · Family

Marriage Between Dream and Reality

In a sheltered workshop, Alain witnesses the growing love between Pascal and Nathalie. Here he tells their hopes for the future.

Family

They Want to Marry. What Should They Decide?

Brigitte de Montivault, who has run group homes for 25 years, explains—from her experience—what conditions must be met to turn the dream of marriage into reality

Testimonial · Family

We Celebrate the Birth of a Child — Parents of Children with Disabilities

Christmas Every Day

Testimonial · Family

A Letter from a Mother in Molise

To mothers of nonverbal disabled children: this is where my rage and pain meet

Testimonial · Family

How Does a Mother Do It?

Fatima is two years old, perfectly intelligent, and alive because of a respirator, an oxygen tank, and a feeding tube that delivers food directly to her stomach.

Testimonial · Family

What to "Do" With Them? — Casa del Sole and the Solidarity Center

Two accounts from Casa del Sole, a special school for disabled youth, and the Solidarity Center, which serves the most severely impaired children—those with cerebral palsy and often multiple handicaps

Testimonial · Family

Friends. Always.

Cristina reflects on her friendship with Andrea and Silvia's family—two siblings with profound disabilities—and the bond that endured across a decade.

Testimonial · Family

My Life Is Finding Its Shape and Color Again

To understand depression more deeply—what it feels like, how to support someone who suffers from it, and to offer what help we can—we share the testimony of a friend.

Testimonial · Family

Children Behind Bars: The Work of "A Roma insieme"

A day spent with the children of incarcerated mothers at a Roman prison

Testimonial · Family

And Then What? A Question About Life After Parents

I wrestle with a question that darkens my heart and I cannot answer: what becomes of these young people when both their parents are gone?

Family

Dario's House — Arcobaleno Association

After Us—Someone Found an Answer to Our Friend's Question, and to So Many Others. In Ponte Lambro, for One.

Family

Città Futura—How an Ethical Bank Financed a Town's Rebirth

In October 1998, a group of young people in southern Italy decided to reverse their town's decline. A bank without collateral believed in them.

Editorial · Family

Moving Forward

Your responses—fewer than we'd hoped for, but all the more meaningful—have quieted our doubts and fears. Don't give up! Thank you for the encouragement. We needed it.

Interview · Family

Daniele's Life: Conversations After Reading "Who Would I Be If I Could Be?"

On Life After: the testimonies of a mother, teacher, and friend of Faith and Light, and her son, a fine young man of 26

Family

Learning to Let Go

Tomorrow Anna faces an unbearable choice: should she say yes to placing her son Michele in a residential community for adults with intellectual disabilities?

Family

Letting Go: Preparing for Life After Us

A child must separate from parents—it is nature's way. No one can remain a child forever, not even a severely disabled son or daughter. How do we face and prepare for this separation?

Testimonial · Family

My Parents Were Right

Maria Agnese, the oldest of five siblings, is 36 years old and has Down syndrome. For the past 11 years, she has lived in a group home and works in a nursing facility, where she handles errands and takes photographs.

Testimonial · Family

Understanding Williams Syndrome

You've asked us about Williams syndrome. Here's a brief explanation, along with a mother's account of her family's experience.

Family

Isolated, Yet Alive to the World

A Father with Eight Foster Children in a Beautiful Farmhouse at Podere Gugliano, Near Trequanda, in the Sienese Countryside

Testimonial · Family

Four of Us: The "Il Roveto" Community

Maria Grazia, Maria Francesca, Laura, and Nunzia tell the story of their long and difficult journey toward a small miracle

Family

What Families Teach Us: Reflections from Father Roberti

Father André Roberti invites us to examine the family today—observations that touch all of us closely

Family

New Initiatives for People with Disabilities

Two promising programs have just opened (in Pordenone and Formello). We hope they will provide real support to those who need it most.

Interview · Family

What Facilitated Communication Can Do: An Interview with Francesca Benassi

A simplified but faithful account of our conversation with Francesca Benassi about a method that is changing how we understand autism.

Family

Autism and Facilitated Communication: How Michele Broke Through

For seven years, Michele has been using Facilitated Communication. I still remember with emotion the first time I watched him type my name on the computer—and his brother's, and his special education teacher's.

Testimonial · Family

My Little Princes

"That summer camp was the beginning of a new path of growth," Claudia writes, reflecting on her experience as a volunteer

Family

Solidarity Condominiums

Good news from friends in Milan: the "solidarity condominiums" born in Piedmont and Lombardy have grown to ten, and perhaps soon will be eleven.

Testimonial · Family

My Friend Carlo

Carlo is a dear friend to me. The greatest gift he's taught me is loyalty—which at Fede e Luce is truly everything. Thank you, Carlo.

Testimonial · Family

That Precious Third Age

Reading Arturo Paoli's letter stirred in us a desire to reflect, for once, on growing old. We do so using texts sent by our readers or published in journals close to our mission.

Testimonial · Family

Keeping Youth Alive in My Heart

For years, the limits and suffering that came with my disability pushed me forward.

Testimonial · Family

The Weapon That Won Me Over

It feels like yesterday when my husband and I first realized our daughter, barely two months old, had something terribly wrong...

Testimonial · Family

Two Callings

Some have only one wing, battered and scarred, yet with that single broken wing they reach out to their brothers and sisters — often more capably than those blessed with two. They know how to work their damaged wing among the rocks of life.

Testimonial · Family

They Welcomed Us with Joy—One Family's Adoption Story

What I discovered on a journey to India

Testimonial · Family

Healers or Magicians?

Family

The Family Today—What Are We Missing?

What more must we discover about this hidden world that is the traditional family in our time?

Open Dialogue · Family

Open Dialogue No. 72

From Your Perspective: Suggestions, Comments, Critiques for the Magazine... Problems and Questions

Family

My Son Drives Me to Desperation

There are moments when I reach the breaking point. My patience with my older son is simply gone.

Family

After Compulsory School: A Difficult Choice

When compulsory schooling ends, young people with disabilities and their families face a crucial decision about the future. And it's rarely easy.

Family

Hello! Welcome! Hej! Hallóziik! Halo!

Valentina Camomilla describes an international formation gathering held in Chianciano

Testimonial · Family

Emergency in a Bottle

A mother shares her experience with this homeopathic remedy—a blend of five flowers with calming effects. It doesn't replace the therapies children need, but it's strong support.

Editorial · Family

Rosamaria

Davide taught you silence. It is hard to get you to speak. I will do it for you: for the respect and affection I bear you, but above all to tell you, Franco, and parents like you, that we feel we owe you a debt.

Family

Thirst and the Water of Hope

Parents who lovingly care for a disabled child become, often without realizing it, a source of profound hope for countless people in distress

Family

Immacolata's Courage

How a mother broke through the circle of loneliness and bitterness that had trapped her family—and found community waiting on the other side

Family

The Risk of Solidarity: Silvia Tamberi's Vision

How Silvia sees and lives solidarity—through her own experience and Italo Calvino's eyes

Testimonial · Family

"We Are Grateful for This" — The Story of Gianni's Parents

He never called them Mom and Dad, never spoke a tender word to them. Yet Valeria and Giulio gave him their entire lives.

Open Dialogue · Family

Open Dialogue No. 69

Your perspective: suggestions, comments, criticism for the magazine... questions and concerns

Testimonial · Family

Just Like Any Other Family

Family

Cecilia Wants a Home

Interview · Family

I Became a Priest and a Father

An interview with Don Gino Rigoldi: priest, adoptive father, and grandfather—a witness to radical welcome and unconditional love

Family

Il Ricino: A Community Called Home

Family

Open Doors

Open Dialogue · Family

Open Dialogue No. 68

Editorial · Family

Something New Is Happening

Family

Why Can't My Dad Play Ball with Me?

Family

How to Help Him

Family

One Step at a Time

Testimonial · Family

A Serious Accident

Testimonial · Family

My Father Is Blind

Family

Does Ombre e Luci Still Have a Purpose?

Family

An Open Letter to Parents of Children with Disabilities

Family

Ten Principles for Teaching People with Disabilities

Family

Roberto Finds a New Home

Family

Roberto, Who Are You?

Family

A Day at Il Melograno

Family

Facilitated Communication: A Voice That Cannot Be Silenced

Family

Breaking Through Isolation

Family

On the Himalaya with Disabled Teenagers

Family

Creativity and Disability: Simple Innovations That Make a Difference

Editorial · Family

The Invisible Disability

Family

Teresa

Testimonial · Family

Benedetta: A Sister's Portrait

Family

Margherita—Do You Remember? You Asked Me for Wool in Different Colors

Open Dialogue · Family

Open Dialogue No. 61

Family

La Nostra Famiglia

Family

What Grandparents Give: An Extra Tenderness

Family

Grandparents Can Do So Much

Family

Grandparents as Spiritual Guides

Family

Not "After Us," but Before: Like His Brothers, He Leaves Home

Open Dialogue · Family

Open Dialogue No. 60

Family

A True Story

Open Dialogue · Family

Open Dialogue No. 57

Testimonial · Family

Dear Sisters and Brothers

Testimonial · Family

Swinging Between Love and Hate

Testimonial · Family

When Love Was Missing

Testimonial · Family

Alone in Suffering

Testimonial · Family

Why Don't You Understand Me?

Testimonial · Family

She Taught Me to Love

Family

Parents: Don't Make Us Angry

Testimonial · Family

What My Sister's Disability Asks of Our Friendship

Family

Brothers in the Dark

Family

But Costanza Dances with the Wind

Family

What Do They Understand? And We?

Family

Cati at 37: Still Progressing

Family

Autism and Childhood Psychosis in Ombre e Luci

Family

Teaching the Faith to Autistic Children

Family

Choosing a Path Forward

Family

Vocabulary: Understanding Disability

Family

Let Him Go

Family

Moral Formation and the Disabled

Family

They Have Their Own Story

Open Dialogue · Family

Open Dialogue No. 54

Editorial · Family

To Parents and Friends

Testimonial · Family

Emotional Distress Demands Understanding

Family

Is There a Problem With Your Child?

Family

Bread, Love, and Imagination

Family

Now I Understand Why I Plant Flowers

Open Dialogue · Family

Open Forum No. 52

Family

Living Well With Aging People

Family

Sport and Music: The Path to Growth

Family

A Guide to Homes, Institutions, and Centers Visited by Ombre e Luci

Open Dialogue · Family

Open Forum No. 51

Open Dialogue · Family

Open Dialogue No. 50

Family

La Torre: A Residential Community

Family

Parents' Questions and Concerns

Family

Coming of Age

Family

How Can I Tell You? How Do I Explain?

Family

Dialogue as Healing

Family

A Special Seminar — The Courage to Speak With Them

Open Dialogue · Family

Open Dialogue No. 49

Editorial · Family

Dinner with the Ozzimos

Testimonial · Family

A Family Conversation Worth Reading

Pablo’s Family Shares Their Story

Family

Don't Be Ashamed to Be Happy

Family

A Heavy Burden

Family

Singing Is Playing. Playing Is Connection

Family

Choosing Toys and Games for Children with Disabilities

Family

The Toy Cupboard

Family

Giving Them an Ordinary Life

Family

Learning to Live Well with Jimmy — Part Two

Family

Learning to Live Well with Jimmy — Part One

Family

Faith and Light No. 43: A Seminar on Catechesis for People with Disabilities

Editorial · Family

Hidden Gifts: Discovering What People with Disabilities Can Do

Family

"Thank You for Letting Me Do It Myself"

Family

"I'll Do It!"

Family

It's Never Too Late

Family

I Take the Bus Alone

Family

Beyond Handicap

Open Dialogue · Family

Open Dialogue No. 42

Family

Francesca and Sabrina

Family

My Brother in His Shell

Family

Stop and Understand

Testimonial · Family

"Do Not Be Afraid—It Is I Who Guide You"

Family

Those Sitting Down, Those Standing Up

Family

Daniela

Testimonial · Family

Alessia

Family

Beyond Family: Specialists and Friends

Family

Who Helps the Family: The Specialists

Family

Lelia

Testimonial · Family

Giacomo

Testimonial · Family

Viviana

Testimonial · Family

Now Manuela Can

Family

A Letter to a Doctor: The Birth of a Disabled Child

Editorial · Family

After We're Gone

Family

Questions and Answers About Your Child's Future

Family

What Can Parents Do?

Family

Five Community Residences: Models in Action

Family

"Ancora": Building a Home for Four

Review · Family

A Life Made Possible: Mental Handicap and Family

Review · Family

Effatà: Open Wide

Review · Family

Community as a Place of Forgiveness and Celebration

Open Dialogue · Family

Open Forum No. 36

Testimonial · Family

What Kind of Life Is This? Six Mothers Speak Out

Family

We Are People Too

Family

Voices from Parents

Open Dialogue · Family

Open Dialogue No. 35

Family

The Primavalle Training Center: One Neighborhood, Many Projects

Family

Different Families?

G. and M. Labrousse, parents of Paolo, who has a disability, lay bare their journey—a story uniquely their own, yet one shared by countless families facing handicap.

Family

To Educate Is to Desire

Family

The Glass Boy: Understanding Disability

Family

Life! Reflections on Disability Culture

Family

Abib, Mohamed, and Naima

Family

Welcoming an Autistic Child

Testimonial · Family

I Am a Mother Like You

Family

Scared? Ride Again for Free—A Day at Rome's Luneur

Testimonial · Family

I Am Not Alone

Open Dialogue · Family

Open Dialogue No. 32

Family

Friendship at Fede e Luce: Bonds with the Weak and the Rejected

Family

"Listen Well, Joseph!"

An excerpt from the book Under the Eye of the Clock introduces the theme of cerebral palsy

Testimonial · Family

Surrender or Act?

Antonio's story, told by his father Giuseppe: spasticity following a fever, commitment to AIAS, and the steps toward rebirth

Testimonial · Family

"And Here I Am..."

Paolo, living with spastic athetosis, describes his everyday life—introduced by Patrizia, one of his home care assistants

Testimonial · Family

A Letter of Hope to Parents

Marco's invitation to optimism for mothers and fathers of children with disabilities

Interview · Family

Dependent Yet Free

An Interview with Domenico and His Parents: The Support of Family, Friends, and Faith

Family

Don't Burden Them Too Much

How do we give brothers and sisters of people with disabilities the space they need?

Family

Perhaps It's Because of My Sister

A sister of someone with a disability shares the many struggles she faces.

Testimonial · Family

I Felt My Responsibility Growing

Love and duty toward a sister with disability: beyond obligation, a free choice—in the words of Paola

Editorial · Family

Merry Christmas to You Too

Testimonial · Family

Francesca at the Table: Ritual and Adventure

Testimonial · Family

One Child, One Year, One Family

Open Dialogue · Family

Open Letters #28

Editorial · Family

Where to Begin?

Testimonial · Family

Dining with a Deaf Person

Testimonial · Family

My Brother and Sister Are Deaf

Testimonial · Family

So Are We Going?

Family

Paolo and Chiara

Family

Good Habits Make All the Difference

Family

How to Approach Someone with a Disability

Family

With Open Arms

Testimonial · Family

Saverio, Our Brother

Family

Living with Mental Illness

Testimonial · Family

She Was My Mother—and Someone Else Entirely

Family

Who Knows? The Silent Strength of Fathers, a Voice Often Unheard

Fathers are rarely discussed, even in books and articles about family and its struggles. Here is Paolo's story—a father of Maria Francesca (Chicca)

Family

The Absent Father

Family

I Am Francesca's Father

Family

Waited for With Open Arms

Testimonial · Family

Small Acts, a Whole Life

Family

With His Father

Testimonial · Family

I Cannot See God's Wonders, but I Sing Them

Family

"What Is a Handicap?" "I Don't Know"

Roberto, 30, tells his story: the life of an adult with mild intellectual disability, between everyday life, dreams, and hopes.

Family

When Disability Doesn't Stop at Sixteen

Family

Teresa: A Life of Work, Fully Integrated

Family

A House as Answer

Family

Growing through work

Editorial · Family

Keep the Door Open

Testimonial · Family

A Celebration at Home, With Him

These are his happiest days—and ours too, really, because we're all together.

Family

Everything She Did for Us

Family

Preparing Him to Live with Others

Testimonial · Family

Uncle Jurgens

Family

The Monastery: Giampiero's Second Home

Editorial · Family

If They Don't Act

Testimonial · Family

The Gift of Daniela

Open Dialogue · Family

Open Forum #15

Editorial · Family

Blind, Deaf, Unable to Walk or Speak

Family

From Despair to Hope

Family

People with Multiple Disabilities

Family

My God, How Hard It Is to Live Through Suffering

Family

The Doctor's Verdict

Open Dialogue · Family

Open Dialogue No. 12

Family

What Future Do You Dream For Your Child?

Family

Cascina Nibai: A Living Answer

Family

Seven Girls and a Sister at Villa Olmo

Family

Casa di Gino: An Agricultural Community

Testimonial · Family

Epilepsy in the Family and at School

Testimonial · Family

Voices of Sisters and Brothers

Family

A My Sisters and Brothers

Testimonial · Family

Slowly, I Realized Sergio Was Different

Testimonial · Family

Not Just All Year, But All These Years

Testimonial · Family

But Then He Gives Me His Precious Smile

Testimonial · Family

Why I Stayed

Testimonial · Family

My Brother Was Handicapped

Testimonial · Family

I Chose My Brother

Testimonial · Family

But After We Meet, They Disappear

Family

Christmas in My Heart

Testimonial · Family

She Was Our Consolation

Family

Strong for Her

Family

When Parents Learn Their Child Is Handicapped

Family

What About the Other Children?

Family

Casa Jada — OAMI's Model Family Home

Family

Our Two-Meter Puppy

Testimonial · Family

He Was Always Turned Away

Testimonial · Family

My Son, I Don't Think I Can Take You to Church Like This

Editorial · Family

Why the Doors Remain Closed

Testimonial · Family

"She Doesn't Come In"

Family

Cottolengo and Don Guanella: Beyond Prejudice

Family

Within Our Means and According to the Gospel

Open Dialogue · Family

Open Dialogue #5

Family

Saverio

Family

When Life Becomes This Hard

Open Dialogue · Family

Open Dialogue No. 4

Family

When They Grow Up

Family

When My Child Left Home for the First Time

Open Dialogue · Family

Open Dialogue, Issue 3

Family

Hope Under Strain

Family

Lorenza: Before She Was Our Disabled Daughter, She Was Our Daughter

Open Dialogue · Family

Open Dialogue, No. 2

Editorial · Family

Editorial: Issue 1

Testimonial · Family

The Loneliness of Parents

Open Dialogue · Family

Open Dialogue #1

We're launching this column to gather your suggestions, comments, criticisms, and praise for the magazine—along with your questions and concerns

Open Dialogue · Family

They Have Written to Us - Together n.28

Open Dialogue · Family

Letters from Our Community, Together No. 27

Family

The Siblings We Overlook: Brothers and Sisters of Children with Disabilities

Family

So Many Questions Before Them

Open Dialogue · Family

You've Written to Us, Insieme No. 26

Testimonial · Family

A Problem I Don't Know How to Solve

Editorial · Family

The Siblings

Family

Did Your Other Children Accept It?

Family

Why Don't You Understand Me?

Family

The Weight of It

Family

My Sister