Most of you probably know the actor Joe Mantegna. Well, Tony Rossi wrote an excellent piece on Mantegna and his autistic daughter. Definitely worth a read.

“I went to the chapel. There was nobody else in there. I knelt and—I haven’t been the most devout Catholic in my life, I’ll be the first to admit, but we all tap into that which we know. And that is my spiritual connection to God, that’s the channel it runs through—Catholicism. But I went in there and said, ‘Look, I know I’m not on the A Team. I’m not one of the starters; I’ve been on the bench for a while. But please, if there’s something that can be done for this child to live, I’m prepared to do whatever I must do.'”