So far, a few dioceses have had programs to help Autistics to live a full Catholic life. Autism Consecrated has done a great job of encouraging autistics in their own prayer life. But, so far, there has been a lack […]
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.
A New Sensory-Friendly Mass in Virginia
This August, a parish in Northern Virginia started a monthly sensory-friendly Mass. Nativity is a parish on the edge of the DC suburbs in the diocese of Arlington that will now make their 1 pm Sunday Mass sensory-friendly every 2nd […]
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Flourishing as Autistic Christians (Video Series with Duquesne University)
Back in Spring 2023, I did a recording with some people at Duquesne University on human flourishing as autistics from a Christian perspective. The roundtable presents a good spectrum of perspectives on living as an autistic Christian in our broken […]
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Explaining Catholic Doctrine to Protestants (Podcast)
Last month, Ray Sexton invited me on his Lift High the Cross podcast to explain Catholic teachings to Protestants. Ray hopes to become a Lutheran pastor and interviews pastors from various Christian branches, although I was the first Catholic. He […]
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Ten Years of a Sensory-Friendly Room Near Atlanta
In this third and final installment of examining places that have run a sensory-friendly space for an extended period, we get to possibly the longest-running sensory-friendly room. (First and second in this series.) St. Peter Channel in Roswell, GA (north […]
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Fort Wayne Has the Largest Sensory-Friendly Mass in the USA
St. Vincent de Paul parish in Fort Wayne, Indiana, has the most highly attended sensory-friendly Mass I know of. They have 400-700 people on an average Sunday. They have been going for just under 3 years and have grown big […]
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Sensory-Friendly Room for Mass: 5 Years in NY State
I recently spoke to Aimee O’Connell of Autism Consecrated about her parish’s sensory-friendly room for Mass. This is St. Pus X in Rochester, New York: it’s on my sensory-friendly Mass directory. This will be the first in a series of […]
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Are Volkswagons Immoral? (An Analogy)
Throughout certain recent discussions, some Catholics have argued that we can’t use medical products if tested on a fetal cell line. They use terms that grab a good Catholic’s conscience but are not accurate to the reality. They say things […]
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Vaccines Have Some Risk, But It’s a Reasonable Risk
I wrote a letter to the editor about an article that noted that Catholics have a duty to vaccinate for the common good. This is important as some Catholics falsely claim Catholics should skip vaccines or that vaccine mandates are […]
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Intrinsic Human Dignity: 1st Part of Dignitas Infinita
The last two semesters, I have taught bioethics. In that class, the whole second week focused on human dignity being intrinsic and based on being made in the Image of God. Dignity comes from being human, not from some secondary […]
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