deaf ministries Archives

Conference will examine sexual abuse of young deaf Catholics

May 4, 2021

The first international conference on sexual abuse of young deaf Catholics will take place May 7 and May 21 during webinars organized by the Deaf Catholic Youth Initiative for the Americas.

By Joyce Duriga

Deaf Catholics applaud Vatican’s sign language service on YouTube channel

Apr 29, 2021

When the Easter livestream of Pope Francis’ general audience and the Angelus was broadcast for the first time in American Sign Language on the Vatican’s YouTube channel, the deaf Catholic ministry group in Texas took particular notice.

By Jo Ann Zuñiga

No singing allowed? Chicago Catholic school’s students learn sign language

Jan 2, 2021

When music teacher Lynn Kingsbury at St. Damian School in the Chicago suburb of Oak Forest learned that her students wouldn’t be allowed to sing in class because of COVID-19 restrictions, she made a dream of hers into reality — teaching the students how to sing in American Sign Language.

By Joyce Duriga

Maryknoll program in Cambodia provides sign language for COVID-19 videos

Apr 16, 2020

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit this country, Cambodian Sign Language interpreters of the Maryknoll Deaf Development Programme provided interpretation in educational videos created by the Cambodian government.

By Catholic News Service

Abuse victims look to Vatican after UN meetings in Geneva

Feb 19, 2020

Three deaf victims of sexual abuse by priests in Argentina wrapped up a string of meetings with United Nations human rights officials in Geneva on Wednesday, hoping to build pressure on the Vatican — and Pope Francis himself — to come clean about the crimes committed against them.

By Jamey Keaten

Quiet learning takes place in Catholic school’s sign language class

Jan 12, 2020

American Sign Language (ASL) — an elective class for seniors at Brother Martin High School in New Orleans — has taken silence to the monastic level, adopting a religious community’s approach to silence soon after the school year began.

By Peter Finney Jr.

Priests accused of abusing deaf Argentine students on trial

Aug 5, 2019

Downcast and sitting in a wheelchair as his historic trial began Monday in Argentina, Father Nicola Corradi didn’t look like the man former students at an institute for the deaf say was the force behind years of “indescribable” torment through alleged sexual abuse.

By Almudena Calatrava

Church needs joyful disciples, pope tells young people, deaf association

Apr 25, 2019

In back-to-back audiences with a group of French young people and an Italian association for deaf people, Pope Francis cited personal example and witness as a vital piece in the Church’s evangelization mission.

By Junno Arocho Esteves