St. Bernadette’s Church in Orchard Park, NY has a sensory-friendly room at Mass and a whole sensory-friendly Mass on occasion. This parish is rather unique as they got mentioned in local news in Buffalo, not just in the diocesan paper […]
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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.
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After a long time of preparation, you can finally pre-order my Book, God Loves the Autistic Mind: Prayer Guide for Those on the Spectrum and Those Who Love Us. It is only so far available in the USA, but should […]
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Fort Wayne – South Bend Profiles Fr. Matthew Schneider, LC
I did an interview a few weeks ago with Jennifer Barton, who works at Today’s Catholic, the diocesan paper for the Diocese of Fort Wayne – South Bend, Indiana. It was published last week and I think she did a […]
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Sensory-Friendly Mass in South Jersey
The diocesan paper for Camden, New Jersey recently carried a story about a sensory-friendly Mass in the diocese. This Mass in south Jersey has been going on since at least 2015 which makes it one of the longer-running sensory-friendly Masses […]
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Omaha: Great Article About a Sensory-Friendly Mass
I have been trying to cover the various sensory-friendly Masses slowly starting in different dioceses in the USA and Canada. Diocesan papers will often have stories about them on their website. Catholic Voice Omaha, the paper for the Archdiocese, had a recent article that I think can be a model for other dioceses.
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No More Christian Ministries “With Autism”
In the autistic community, there has long been a debate about how to refer to ourselves. Historicaly, medical professionals have often preferred “people with autism” while most of us prefer “autistic.” I personally – like the vast majority of autistics […]
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Jesus Asks Virtue, Not Mere Sin Avoidance
Too often we think of rules in the abstract. We see the 10 Commandments as a bunch of “shall nots” without going deeper into them. We see the goal as avoiding or managing sin and forget how grace transforms us interiorly to virtue. The attitude that the goal of every Christian is simply to be free from sin is absolutely destructive of Christianity.
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Russia Was Consecrated in 1984 to the Immaculate Heart
It is great that Pope Francis will be consecrating Russia again on the 38th anniversary of John Paul II’s consecration. This news brought out several claiming that Russia had not been consecrated to fulfill the request at Fatima. The logic […]
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Chile Writes Neurodiversity Into the Constitutional Draft
Chile moves to recognize neurodiversity in its constitution. They are in the middle of a constitutional convention and this proposed new article got strong support at the convention, being one of the strongest supported articles in this convention. This piece […]
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Why Such a Focus on Extraordinary Form in Catholic Media and Online Discussion?
This post is not set to give a definitive answer to the question. Instead, my intention is to give an approximation of how what percentage of Catholics at Sunday Mass in an average week in the USA are attending an […]
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