Mark Bradford

Mark Bradford is the Fellow for Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities at the Word on Fire Institute and the author of Let Us Pray: Catholic Prayers for All Abilities. For over twenty years, he has been blessed to serve in leadership positions in various church ministries, including as the founding president of the Jerome Lejeune Foundation in the US. Mark and his wife, Denise, are parents to Thomas, their sixth of seven children (and first son), who happens to have been gifted with an extra twenty-first chromosome. Mark is a passionate advocate for those born with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families. He especially advocates, at every opportunity, against the threat of abortion following a prenatal diagnosis. The Bradfords reside in the Philadelphia suburbs.

Edited by Mark Bradford