What can the community of believers contribute to the acceptance and integration of handicapped people in society?
This book offers a careful analysis of the question and provides clear guidance on how to address the challenges faced by handicapped people, particularly within the Christian community. It highlights four key points.
-The approach: "It is the brother in difficulty who creates difficulty, because he represents an unprecedented case... that disrupts the ordinary way we reach out to our neighbor... and lays bare our meager, diminished willingness..."
-The relationship between the Christian community and handicapped people.
-What handicapped people contribute to the community.
Finally, the most difficult aspect of disability itself:
-suffering.
This book offers hope to parents and should be read, reflected upon, and treated as a handbook by lay people, priests (parish priests especially), professionals, and anyone who comes into contact with handicapped people. It provides them with a tool for reflection on a question that must be posed urgently to all consciences—particularly those that call themselves Christian.
-by Effegi, 1984
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