Disability Is Not a Calling

«When we judge disability as a matter of value, we reduce the other person's humanity," says Simone Stifani, a priest in a wheelchair, in this book written with Luciano Manicardi. The dialogue between the young priest and the Bose monk is a profound one—at times you may not fully agree—but it raises many compelling points. The most important, in our view, is the invitation to question those ideas about God, about human dignity, and about the Church that we take for granted, as if they were the only ones possible. We fail to recognize how often they are simply the product of a way of thinking, living, and praying shaped by the Western ableism that saturates us.