In 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 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.
EWTN News in Depth Interviews Fr. Matthew P. Schneider, LC
Back 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 […]
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Reviews on Patheos and CatholicMom.com of God Loves the Autistic Mind
Patrice 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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How to Attend Fr. Matthew’s Doctoral Defense on July 5 Virtually
Over the past three years, although I have been posting some things online, my primary assignment has been writing a doctoral thesis in moral theology. I started on genetic privacy, but ended with, “A Catholic Theological Analysis of the Right […]
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God Loves the Autistic Mind Reviewed in US Catholic Magazine
Bri Rooke wrote a short review of my book in an article of what they are reading for July 2022 in US Catholic. I will quote some of it below but you can read it all over there. Written by […]
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Aleteia interviewed me on God Loves the Autistic Mind
As my book came out, a number of places are doing reviews of the book or interviews about it. Sarah Robsdottir of Aleteia decided to do a bit of a combination of the two. It’s mainly an interview, but it […]
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How Does the Holy Spirit Speak Differently to Us as Autistics?
The Holy Spirit is one, but different people hear his voice differently. In this video I try to answer how we autistics tend to hear him differently. My script is below the video. This is a good question and I […]
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What About Your Perspective as an Autistic Priest?
I think both being a priest and being autistic help with providing a background for autistic prayer in a book like God loves the Autistic Mind. Let’s look being a priest then being autistic.
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What to Do If the Seal of Confession Is Broken
Since issues regarding breaking the seal of confession from time to time online, I will write the “for dummies” version of how to respond if this happens. To begin, directly breaking the seal is latae sententiae (automatic) excommunication: they are cut off […]
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The Best Guide for Autism in Church
The Anglican Diocese of Oxford made what I consider the best guide for including autistics in Church. Ann Memmott PGC, who helped prepare this made me aware of it. I think it makes many good points. Here I will cover […]
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