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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Deisher et al. 2015 on Vaccines & Autism Must Be Retracted Due to Multiple Issues Including Possible Fraud
In 2015, Issues in Law & Medicine published “Epidemiologic and Molecular Relationship Between Vaccine Manufacture and Autism Spectrum Disorder Prevalence” by Theresa A. Deisher, Ngoc V. Doan, Kumiko Koyama, and Sarah Bwabye (Spring;30[1]:47-70. PMID: 26103708) (PDF). Dr. Theresa Deisher is […]
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Autism and Holy Orders Is a Helpful Book
About a year ago, I got Autism and Holy Orders: How to Help Seminarians with Autism Become Effective Priests by Deacon Lawrence Sutton. I held off reading it as I was writing a review of a prior book of his […]
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Autistic Adaptation in Parishes with Terry Mattingly
There are still a lot of things parishes can do to help autistic people in Church. Terry Mattingly is is constantly looking at the interaction between religion and other news, and how the media reports on religion. He is a […]
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First Book on Autism in Catholic Schools
Teaching Students with Autism in a Catholic Setting by Deacon Lawrence Sutton is not a perfect book, but at the moment, it is the first book in this niche and overall a pretty good book. I reviewed it recently for The […]
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The Fall River Anchor on God Loves the Autistic Mind
The Anchor, the paper of the diocese of Fall River, MA, decided to review my book on their own. Many dioceses picked up existing reviews and reprinted them, but I appreciate dioceses who accept their own reviews. Their review starts: […]
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Aut-ish Podcast on Autism & Religion
Back in November, I recorded a podcast with an autistic podcaster out of the UK who goes by Onikage online. Her podcast is called Aut-ish. When looking for autism podcasts, I found hers to often have some of the more […]
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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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God Loves the Autistic Mind on EWTN Bookmark
Back on Halloween, I was at EWTN and recorded episodes for two shows. At Home with Jim and Joy went live later that week. EWTN Bookmark just went live recently. I was really impressed by Doug Keck’s preparation. You can’t […]
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Looking at Jesus’ Healing Miracles in a New Light
This is my review of Bethany McKinney Fox, Disability and the Way of Jesus: Holistic Healing in the Gospels and the Church (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2019) which is a work of disability theology focused on Jesus’ miracles. It […]
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