When Amanda Martínez Beck saw a photo of Pope Francis sitting in a wheelchair and holding a baby during his weeklong trip to Canada in July, she felt the same sense of camaraderie she feels seeing another mom at her children's elementary school using a wheelchair.
Beck, who uses a rollator, a kind of walker with a seat, teaches that "all bodies are good bodies" in her fat liberation activism. "Something is good that fulfills its purpose, and I believe that the purpose of the human body is relationship with God and others," she told NCR.
For Beck, "to see Pope Francis, having relationships, doing his papal duties" using a wheelchair or a cane, "it just reminds me of the goodness of a weak body like mine, because this is one of the holiest people in the world able to love and serve from a wheelchair."
Source: Disabled Catholics praise pope's example in publicly using a wheelchair