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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Flourishing as Autistic Christians (Video Series with Duquesne University)
Back in Spring 2023, I did a recording with some people at Duquesne University on human flourishing as autistics from a Christian perspective. The roundtable presents a good spectrum of perspectives on living as an autistic Christian in our broken […]
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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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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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