Today, I am featured in a Catholic News Agency piece spotlighting Autistic Catholics as a new organization helping Catholics on the spectrum. Here is some of what I said: The new president of Autistic Catholics, Father Matthew Schneider, an openly […]
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A New Sensory-Friendly Mass in Virginia
This August, a parish in Northern Virginia started a monthly sensory-friendly Mass. Nativity is a parish on the edge of the DC suburbs in the diocese of Arlington that will now make their 1 pm Sunday Mass sensory-friendly every 2nd […]
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Ten Years of a Sensory-Friendly Room Near Atlanta
In this third and final installment of examining places that have run a sensory-friendly space for an extended period, we get to possibly the longest-running sensory-friendly room. (First and second in this series.) St. Peter Channel in Roswell, GA (north […]
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Fort Wayne Has the Largest Sensory-Friendly Mass in the USA
St. Vincent de Paul parish in Fort Wayne, Indiana, has the most highly attended sensory-friendly Mass I know of. They have 400-700 people on an average Sunday. They have been going for just under 3 years and have grown big […]
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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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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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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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Sensory-Friendly Cry Rooms in Non-Catholic Churches
I’m unapologetically Catholic. The Catholic Church is the vessel of salvation. But, at the same time, I think we can at times learn from other Christians. A recent article in the Victoria Advocate (Texas) by a Methodist spoke about autism-friendly – or better sensory-friendly – cry rooms.
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The Best Guide for Autism in Church
The Anglican Diocese of Oxford made what I consider the best guide for including autistics in Church. Ann Memmott PGC, who helped prepare this made me aware of it. I think it makes many good points. Here I will cover […]
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A Sensory Friendly Room for Mass Near Buffalo, NY
St. Bernadette’s Church in Orchard Park, NY has a sensory-friendly room at Mass and a whole sensory-friendly Mass on occasion. This parish is rather unique as they got mentioned in local news in Buffalo, not just in the diocesan paper […]
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