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Over the past two years, while I was writing my doctoral thesis, I was the assistant chaplain at Divine Mercy University in Northern Virginia. This school year, I am living outside a Legionary house while teaching at Belmont. As a […]
Read moreOn Halloween, I was out in Alabama to film a few EWTN shows in person. The first two episodes of the same show dropped this week. They were on At Home with Jim and Joy. The show is set in […]
Read moreThe mother of a 12-year-old autistic boy reviewed my book in the National Catholic Register. I will include an excerpt from her review and a few notes. A few points she brings up in her review might help others looking […]
Read moreI’m unapologetically Catholic. The Catholic Church is the vessel of salvation. But, at the same time, I think we can at times learn from other Christians. A recent article in the Victoria Advocate (Texas) by a Methodist spoke about autism-friendly – or better sensory-friendly – cry rooms.
Read moreThis week, several Catholics in Pittsburgh are going to declare their resistance to Pope Francis at the Catholic Identity Confernece. They claim three main issues where Pope Francis needs resisting but on all three they are wildly off-target. They interpret […]
Read moreBack in late June, I did an interview with Jerry and Debbie of EWTN’s radio program Take2. It was a pre-record for when they were on vacation or unable to record live for a day. They played it on the […]
Read moreI was recently interviewed by Jason Osborne of The Irish Catholic on autism and Catholicism along with a bit on my own life. The online article is behind a paywall (EDIT: taken out from behind the paywall), but I got […]
Read moreI did a Reddit AMA (or Ask Me Anything) on September 2. This was in the /r/Catholicism subreddit (the main Catholic subreddit). I want to present some of the best questions from the discsussion with my replies. I focused on […]
Read moreIn the discourse about COVID vaccines online in Catholic circles, there was immense debate about the astronomically remote connection to abortion. In explicitly Catholic forums, this raged on for months. It seemed like almost 50% of Catholics were not vaccinated […]
Read moreBack on June 22nd , I spent a few hours doing an interview with Roselle Reyes at Divine Mercy University. She and her cameraman (whose name I forgot -oops) also filed some B-roll. Reyes hosts EWTN News in Depth. At […]
Read morePatrice Fagnant-MacArthur at CatholicMom.com and Dave Armstrong at Patheos have reviewed my book, God Loves the Autistic Mind: Prayer Guide for Those on the Spectrum and Those Who Love Us. I will now look at both.
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