The Franciscan sister is now partnering with Vatican News to help bring the pope’s words to deaf people around the world in both Italian Sign Language (LIS) and American Sign Language (ASL). Pope ...

The aim of this study is to analyze Italian Sign Language (LIS) linguistic skills in two groups of deaf signing children at different ages, and to compare their skills with those of a group of deaf ...

Paolo Ruffini, head of the Vatican’s communications department, and Sister Veronica Donatello, head of the Italian bishops’ National Service for the Pastoral Care of People with Disabilities, announce ...

Pope Francis issued an apostolic letter Tuesday formally instituting the new lay ministry of catechist. The Vatican released the papal letter, Antiquum ministerium (“Ancient ministry”), on May 11 in ...

Pope Francis’ Wednesday and Sunday speeches to the public will now be accessible in American Sign Language. The Vatican’s communications office announced the “no one left out” initiative at the end of ...