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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Fr. Matthew LC on the Crab & the Cross
I was recently on a podcast called The Crab and the Cross. We recorded the podcast back in early November, so you can hear me talk about recently being on At Home with Jim and Joy on EWTN. But it […]
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Genetic Testing & Autism: Good Idea but Misguided
We know that the main cause of autism is genetics, with exact percentages varying in different studies. (The evidence is strongly against the main cause being vaccines, processed food, or any such claimed causes.) However, when we look for a […]
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Sensory-friendly Masses Can Be Ordinary or Extraordinary Form
I have advocated for every diocese to offer at least one sensory-friendly Mass so autistics who otherwise struggle to get to Mass can do so. Crisis carried a piece by Greg Cook today on a bunch of things around autism. […]
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