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I wrote one chapter of Indispensable: A Catholic Guide to Welcoming Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. It came out in September, but I only managed to finish reading the rest more recently. I want to provide a summary of […]
Read moreI have seen many people misinterpret Vatican II. I’ve heard people give diametrically opposed understandings of it. I’ve heard people embrace or reject a false image of the council. I’ve seen for years Vatican II was the most talked about […]
Read moreA bit ago, Dr. Peter Hotez published “Vaccine Science Diplomacy and ‘The Phenomenon of Man’” in the Linacre Quarterly. Much of it is looking at Teilhard de Chardin’s theories and their application, but that was not what I thought needed […]
Read moreThis reflection about Jesus as a king came to me on my spiritual exercises over the summer. However, I thought it fit best for Christ the King coming this weekend. We still do a meditation on “the call of Christ […]
Read moreEver since I published God Loves the Autistic Mind: Prayer Guide for Those on the Spectrum and Those Who Love Us, people have asked me for an audiobook. I am happy to announce that this just this month, it was […]
Read moreNote: This appeared in the November print edition of Restoration, a publication of Madonna House. I had given a talk to the community on autism in consecrated life in August, and they asked me for something like this. You can […]
Read moreThis week, Word on Fire is publishing a new book on welcoming those with intellectual & developmental disabilities in the Church. It’s titled Indispensable. Mark Bradford edited it with a different author for each chapter. I wrote the chapter on […]
Read moreRon Sandison, Adulting on the Spectrum: An Insider’s Guide for Navigating Life With Autism (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel, 2025). 301 pp. Paperback, $21.99, ISBN: 978-0825449338. As Ron Sandison uses the same structure for the various chapters, this review will cover […]
Read moreBack in early 2024, Loyola Press pulled 60 Seconds for Jesus by Fr. Jim Sichko due to plagiarism. He is now selling that same book on his website with all the plagiarism in it. As I exposed his plagiarism the […]
Read moreI recently posted a longer, denser version of this argument in the National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly. I recommend anyone who is a theologian or bioethicist to read it there. This article will try to explain why preventative medicine can be […]
Read moreThe Telepathy Tapes have recently been a popular podcast. They investigate the possibility that some non-verbal autistics have extraordinary psychic abilities, particularly telepathy. William Stillman wrote three books on autistics having similar abilities a few years ago. Hearing about this […]
Read moreA few weeks ago, I was preaching about how we should be cautious about our words, and in so doing I made the analogy between our words and the Word of God, as in Jesus, the Word made flesh. All […]
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