Note: this piece was first published in Restoration, Madonna House’s monthly newspaper. They just made it free & I encourage everyone to subscribe, as many of the other reflections are great too. I usually read it cover-to-cover. Silence belongs to […]
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Reflections on Being at an 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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I Will Be Teaching Long-Term at Holy Apostles
Recently, I signed a contract to teach theology at Holy Apostles College and Seminary in Connecticut starting this August. I will also be preaching the retreat for seminarians and on the external formation team. Between these responsibilities, this is full-time, […]
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Vlog on Autism with an Old Teacher (now Superintendant)
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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