This 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 moreAuthor: 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.
God Loves the Autistic Mind Now in Audiobook
Ever 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 […]
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Charity Towards Autistics
Note: 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 […]
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An “Indispensable” Book
This 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 […]
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Ron Sandison’s Book Mixes Autism & Religion Well
Ron 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 […]
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Fr. Jim Sichko Is Selling a Book Full of Plagiarism
Back 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 […]
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Preventive Medicine Can Be Ordinary Means
I 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 […]
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Don’t Trust William Stillman on Autism & Psychic Abilities
The 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 […]
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The Word or the Verb: How Language Affects Theology
A 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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Reflections on Being at Orthodox Conference
As many of you know, I was one of two keynote speakers at “Gathered as One Body: Disability, Accessibility, and Inclusion in the Orthodox Church,” a large conference by the Huffington Ecumenical Institute and the GOA (Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of […]
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