Today Pope Francis released Dilexit Nos. It is an encyclical on the Sacred Heart, which asks us to go deeper spiritually and make a deeper conversion to Christ. I suspect Francis has a deep devotion to Christ’s heart from how […]
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Sensory-Friendly Room for Mass: 5 Years in NY State
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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My Book, “God Loves the Autistic Mind,” tied for 1st in Prayer Books in the ACP 2023 Awards
The Association of Catholic Publishers recently posted their “Excellence in Publishing Awards” for 2023. These are meant to point out the best books in particular categories. In the prayer category, my book, God Loves the Autistic Mind, tied for first. […]
Read moreGod Loves the Autistic Mind: a Finalist in the Association of Catholic Publishers 2023 Awards
My book, God Loves the Autistic Mind: Prayer Guide for Those on the Spectrum and Those Who Love Us, is a finalist in the prayer category for the 2023 Excellence in Publishing Awards Finalists for the Association of Catholic Publishers. […]
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Explaining Ash Wednesday on Fox News
I am on Fox News this morning explaining Ash Wednesday to a secular audience. Here are some highlights, but you can read the rest over there. Ash Wednesday is a reminder “that we say ‘yes’ to God by saying ‘no’ […]
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Aleteia interviewed me on God Loves the Autistic Mind
As my book came out, a number of places are doing reviews of the book or interviews about it. Sarah Robsdottir of Aleteia decided to do a bit of a combination of the two. It’s mainly an interview, but it […]
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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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Pray a Chotki for Peace in Ukraine
With Russia invading Ukraine, we see a lot of people playing for peace. I think we should pray for peace. I want to write briefly about praying the chotki as a way to unite ourselves with Ukrainian Catholics. Most of […]
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