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.
A priest confessing with the autistic infinity symbol (Photo: CC0 Josh Applegate, Unsplash; infinity and composed image, own work)

Autistic Confession: Tips for Both Sides of the Screen

I recently wrote a piece on confession for autistics. I want to help both the individual autistic confess well and the priest to hear the confession well. My piece on the topic was recently published on Aleteia: [Autistics] make up 1.5% […]

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Fr. Chad Zielinski, now bishop of Fairbanks, preaching as an air force chaplain (CC0 government photo)

We Need to Bring Back Parish Missions on Contraception

Following the post I made recently on explaining contraception, I follow up with one way I think that we can do this effectively. In the past, pastors would often ask visiting preachers to talk about the tough moral issues during […]

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These women may think they were ordained but they were not. (CC BY 3.0 St. Mary Magdelene Community vimeo.com/126138208)

John Paul II Definitively Said “No!” to Women Priests

I posted an article over on the National Catholic Register about whether women could be priests: Last week, La Croix carried a story about Sr. Ruth Schönenberger wanting female priests. She explains, “It is surely only natural for women to be priests and I […]

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