As many of you may know, I am the president of the board of Autistic Catholics. Our wider goal is autistic inclusion in the Church. Our initial short to medium-term goal is promoting small groups of autistic individuals. Towards this […]
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Two Ways to Look at Eternity
This is one of the more personal or deeper things I’ve published as a spiritual reflection. Plough Quarterly published a longer essay I wrote on the different ways we look at eternity. You can read the full piece there. Here […]
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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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Omicron Turned My Christmas Plans Upside Down
For the second year in a row, my Christmas plans got changed at the last minute. Last year, I started feeling sick the evening of the 21st and got a positive COVID test on the 24th. (It was not fun […]
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Christians Should Embrace Neurodiversity
This is a point I think is foundational and important for us autistics to be accepted in the Church. I am an autistic priest. When I was first diagnosed with autism as a priest, my superiors gave me a choice […]
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Yes, I am Autistic -Fr. Matthew P. Schneider, LC
So, I made this public today: I’m autistic. I posted a transcript about being autistic on Patheos. Today, on World Autism Awareness Day, I decided to come forward about being autistic. Below is the transcript for this video for those […]
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Why Do We Have Traditions?
I reflected on my family traditions over at Regnum Christi Live in a post that might be worth reading before Christmas. At first glance, some traditions seem meaningless. When I was a kid my family had a tradition to eat […]
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Traditional or Progressive, Conservative or Liberal Are Misleading Regarding Religions
After hearing foreign terms for religious life many times, I finally wrote my thoughts into an article. Isn’t it time to stop labeling religious communities with alien terms? I always wonder what commentators mean when they say a religious community […]
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Foster Parenting: The Forgotten Piece in the Adoption Debate
I wrote a piece on foster-parenting including an anonymous testimony of a friend. Have you ever considered foster parenting? In the recent debate about adoption, why did the debate focus only on expensive infant adoptions? Why don’t we do more […]
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Silence: A challenging but valuable discipline
I wrote a spiritual reflection on silence for Aleteia: Not long ago, I did an eight-day silent retreat. In my community we do this every year. Afterward I Tweeted out a short summary: “So often in prayer what really matters is […]
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