Down syndrome

Bishop: Blanket DNR orders for Britons with learning disabilities ‘immoral’
- Feb 19, 2021
Medical orders against attempting to resuscitate patients with learning disabilities during the latest COVID-19 lockdown in the UK are “wholly unacceptable and immoral,” said the bishops of England and Wales.

By Simon Caldwell
Pope moves Down syndrome advocate closer to sainthood
- Jan 21, 2021
The French doctor who discovered the genetic basis of Down syndrome but spent his career advocating against abortion as a result of prenatal diagnosis has taken his first major step to possible sainthood.

By Nicole Winfield
Top theologian: Argument just keeps ‘foot in the door’ waiting for a saint
- Dec 18, 2020
Archbishop Rowan Williams offered the example of Malcolm Muggeridge, a celebrated British journalist and satirist who was attracted to Communism in his youth and later converted to Christianity under the influence of St. Teresa of Calcutta.

By John L. Allen Jr.

Pre-natal screening can lead to ‘moral ugliness’ of aborting disabled, theologian says
- Dec 14, 2020
Brian Brock is Professor of Moral and Practical Theology at the University of Aberdeen. He is also a husband and father of three children, including Adam, who is 16, who has Down Syndrome and autism.

By Charles C. Camosy
Miracle child’s Down syndrome is a ‘blessing for our family,’ says couple
- Jun 22, 2020
On a trip to Tennessee to interview the Schachles, Brian Caulfield asked them why the child was healed of hydrops but not of Down syndrome. “We never prayed to have Down syndrome healed. That wasn’t life threatening,” they answered. “We thought a child with Down syndrome would be a blessing for our family.”

By Andy Telli
Parents: Baby miraculously cured in utero, now 5, ‘has changed our life’
- Jun 22, 2020
On May 27, Pope Francis approved the promulgation of a decree recognizing Mikey Schachle’s cure from a deadly case of fetal hydrops while still in his mother’s womb as a miracle attributed to the intercession of Father Michael J. McGivney, founder of the Knights of Columbus.

By Andy Telli