Author: Fr. Matthew P. Schneider, LC

We love Jesus. Jesus loved us first. I want to help you experience Jesus and become his apostle. I'm a priest with the Legionaries of Christ ordained in 2013, living in the Washington DC metro area where I'm writing a doctoral thesis in moral theology and I help out with various ministries. I'm also one of the top priests on social media with over 55,000 Twitter followers. I'm originally from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, but I've worked throughout North America.
Covid vaccine and test (CC0 pixabay)

Scientific Errors Lead to Moral Errors Re: Vaccines (3/3 on Fr. Ripperger)

The third post on Fr. Ripperger’s errors. This is the third and final post on Fr. Ripperger and vaccines in his podcast interview. The first focused on his problem with failing to identify the object of most vaccination as immunization. The second focused on his […]

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Examples of less remote cooperation in evil (all public domain from pixabay and unsplash)

12 Things Less-Remote Cooperation in Evil Than COVID Vaccines

I wrote a kind of reductio ad absurdum about how remote the connection to abortion is with vaccines only tested on fetal cell lines. In recent days, several vaccines for COVID have reached the final approval process. The USCCB indicated that Catholics […]

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Pope Francis in Prato, Italy in 2015 (CC BY-SA 4.0 Zebra48bo)

Pope Francis’s Words on Civil Unions Distorted by Editing

The media distorted Pope Francis again. I wrote an explainer. On October 21, 2020, I woke up to find every news source in the world claiming Pope Francis approved civil unions. Then, when I looked at the video, I see […]

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Clarifying Catholic Teaching on Vaccines re: Fr. Michael Copenhagen

I wrote about the question of vaccines a priest raised speaking at an anti-vax event. Several times people have sent me talks or writings by Fr. Michael Copenhagen claiming that he explains the actual Catholic teaching on vaccines. This is […]

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Child’s Arm with two band-aids after a vaccine (CC0 Charles Deluvio on Unsplash)

Debunking Catholic Disinformation Re: Vaccines (Viganò)

I wrote in response to one of Archbishop Viganò’s letters about the vaccine which strayed from Catholic teaching. Archbishop Viganò was the papal nuncio in the USA years ago but has recently come to fame for various letters he’s written […]

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Statute of St. Isidore in front of the National Library of Spain (Héctor Gómez Herrero CC BY-SA 3.0 ES)

St. Isidore of Seville is NOT the Patron Saint of the Internet

When I wrote on soon to be Blessed Carlo Acutis, I got the same reply from many. I titled my article, “Patron Saint of the Internet? Carlo Acutis to Be Beatified.” Many objected that Isidore of Seville was actually the […]

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