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Hey everybody,
I’m coming into this newsletter in a bit of a transition week.
Next week, I’m taking my family on our delayed-until-now summer trip together. And this past weekend, Mrs. Flynn and I hosted the big annual gala fundraiser for the Catholic special education non-profit on whose board we sit.
The gala raised – thanks be to God, and to my wife’s hard work, and to good donors – a lot of money, which we use to give grants to Catholic schools for the enrollment of kids with significant disabilities — to help hire staff, to modify curriculum, to train teachers.
We do that work because we’re convinced that building a culture of life happens by helping communities to include people who are otherwise marginalized or excluded, by helping them to be known, and by adapting the culture and disposition of the community to welcome them.
In other words, we think Catholic schools are more Catholic when they include people with significant disabilities and learning differences, and that all students and faculty are much the better for knowing and including them.
Since the gala, though, I’ve been struck by the context which makes a project like that work. We raised a lot this weekend, and
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