In February, I was giving a conference in Vancouver, Canada to the Catholic school teachers there. On my way back to Belmont Abbey, I stopped to visit my family in Calgary as it was on the way. My sister is […]
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Autismo e spiritualità (Presentazione alla CEI del P. Matthew, LC)
Sono stato invitato a presentare in una giornata sull’autismo e spiritualità organizzato per il Servizio Nazionale per la Pastorale delle Persone con Disabilità della CEI.
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Fr. Matthew, LC on At Home with Jim and Joy
On Halloween, I was out in Alabama to film a few EWTN shows in person. The first two episodes of the same show dropped this week. They were on At Home with Jim and Joy. The show is set in […]
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FrMatthewLC Reddit AMA on /r/Catholicism
I did a Reddit AMA (or Ask Me Anything) on September 2. This was in the /r/Catholicism subreddit (the main Catholic subreddit). I want to present some of the best questions from the discsussion with my replies. I focused on […]
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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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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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My Story as an Autistic Priest in US Catholic
A while back, Shanna Johnson from US Catholic Magazine got in touch with me about doing a profile. We spoke a bit a few months back, and I had not thought too much about it but then I see today […]
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Interview on This Is The Day on CatholicTV
This morning I was interviewed on This Is The Day, a general interest program on CatholicTV. Often Bishop Robert Reed is on the show, but he was not today.? Nonetheless, I think it was a good interview with the two […]
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VIDEO: The Autism Prayer Hump
Autistics pray differently and experience God differently. The classical spiritual authors talk of different stages. I think our stages are slightly different: the first parts can be more difficult for us, while the latter parts can be more challenging. This is what I call the autism prayer hump. I explain why this is and how our psychology affects our prayer in this video.
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Order My Book
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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