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. As I exposed his plagiarism the most, I feel obliged to point […]
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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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Sensory-Friendly Mass on EWTN News In Depth
Over the summer, I noted that there is a new sensory-friendly Mass in the Diocese of Arlington (Virginia side of Washington, DC). The same Mass was covered this week by EWTN News In Depth. Here is the video of the […]
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Autistic Catechesis for First Confession Near Atlanta
Back at the end of May this year, I interviewed Jeanne Lyons about the great things they were doing for autistic students at St. Peter Channel in Roswell, GA (north Atlanta suburb) for autstics. In June, I published an article […]
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Dumbest Idea: Harassing Nuns for Living Together
The dumbest story of the week is unfolding on X (Twitter) & I accidentally became part of it. Some people checking if voter registrations are accurate in Pennsylvania, flagged a monastery of nuns as having 53 people at the same […]
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Autistic Catholics: I’m President of the Board for this New Initiative
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 […]
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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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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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