A lot has been written both for and against the Pope’s visit this week. Apart from the fact that he continues to tell people in the third world that to use condoms as a protection against HIV and AIDS is a sin, the main thing that rankles for me is that the Catholic Church has never publicly updated its belief in the origins of Disability. Talk to many older Catholics and they can remember their Priests telling them that a person was born disabled due to a sin committed by one or both of...

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