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November 2019

November 06, 2019

Entrevista con un sacerdote autista, el P. Matthew Schneider, LC

[For my regular readers in English, this is an interview I gave in Spanish on...

November 05, 2019

A Guide to Helping Your Special Needs Child

A few months back I got Spiritually Able: A Parent’s Guide to Teaching the Faith...

October 2019

October 30, 2019

2 Priests & a Deacon Explain Why We Might Deny Communion

This weekend, Joe Biden was denied Communion in a parish in South Carolina. Although denying...

October 23, 2019

Autistic Confession: Tips for Both Sides of the Screen

I recently wrote a piece on confession for autistics. I want to help both the...

October 22, 2019

Rewriting Our Genes? Prime Editing Doesn’t Resolve Moral Issues

This week, a new variation of CRISPR called "Prime Editing" has come into the spotlight....

October 17, 2019

Christians, Please Call Us Autistic, Blind, and Deaf

When I have posted about autism, I occasionally have had an argument about terminology. I...

October 12, 2019

No Women Are in Formation to Be Permanent Deacons

A bishop in the Amazon is doing the laudable act of forming catechists to lead...

October 10, 2019

Dealing with Autistic Sensory Issues at Mass

Following in my series of videos on autism and Catholicism, today I address issues surrounding...

October 08, 2019

Let’s Use “Fertility Awareness” not “Natural Family Planning”

I fully support the Church’s teaching on contraception but I wonder if our terminology presents...

October 03, 2019

Christus Vivit Study Guide for Small Groups or Personal Study

A few months back, Pope Francis issued a letter to youth called Chrstus Vivit (Christ is Alive)....

October 01, 2019

Study: Autistic Kids Struggle in the Catholic Church

I can talk all I want about my experience of autism in the Church or...

September 2019

September 26, 2019

Euthanasia Where My Great Aunt Was a Sister-Nurse

Recently, a hospital in Catholic Canada was forced to start doing euthanasia assessments. They will...

September 24, 2019

Privacy and Facial Recognition Software: Moral Analysis

I'm currently writing a doctoral thesis in moral theology on the topic of privacy. A...

September 20, 2019

Deep Autistic Prayer: A Personal Prayer Beyond Words

When we autistics pray, we can go deep. However, autistic prayer is slightly different from...

September 18, 2019

Resolving Body Dysmorphic Disorder with Hormones?

This week, Australian scientists made an interesting discovery in treating a tough medical condition. The...

September 04, 2019

Autistic Memory and Prayer

We autistics tend to have a really amazing memory. I have said before that friends...

August 2019

August 30, 2019

Hyposensitivity in Autistics

Part of the diagnostic criteria for autism is sensory irregularities. This can be hypersensitivity and...

August 28, 2019

Assisted Suicide: How the Church Should Behave and WHY

This week, news came out of Seattle of Robert Fuller who died via assisted suicide....

August 25, 2019

Pope Francis Greets an Autistic Girl

Pope Francis greeted an autistic girl from Naples at his Wednesday audience this week. It...

August 23, 2019

Adaptive First Communion Preparation Kit Unboxing

Before I spoke about if autistic children should receive first Communion. They should, in case...

August 22, 2019

The Ethics of Sperm-Sorting to Get Male Babies

Scientists have created a gel that changes the speed of sperm. It slows down sperm...

August 14, 2019

The Privacy Concerns Over Recent DNA Criminal Cases

A string of recent cold cases have been solved by DNA. However, these cases are...

July 2019

July 23, 2019

Autism Is NOT Due to Parental Sin, Fr. Valanmanal

I’m surprised I need to say that autism is not due to parental sin. However,...

July 19, 2019

Helping Out at a Special Needs Mass

A few weeks back I was visiting my family in Calgary and helped out with...

July 17, 2019

Dear National Catholic Reporter, Don’t Fudge Parish Numbers

Last week, the National Catholic Reporter came out with a story about a parish they...

July 16, 2019

Planned Parenthood Reminds Us That Abortion Is What They Do

Dr. Leana Wen became the CEO of Planned Parenthood less than a year ago. This...

June 2019

June 20, 2019

Defending Pope Francis as a “Conservative”

A few months back, The Catholic Herald asked me to interview about an article on...

June 19, 2019

Autistics Should Be Welcome in Church (Re: Evensong at Cambridge)

Last Sunday, Dr. Paul Rimmer took his autistic son to Evensong at King’s College at Cambridge. They...

June 15, 2019

The Confusing Changing Results from DNA Ancestry Tests

As I've noted before, companies like 23andMe or AncestryDNA use probability not precise science to...

June 11, 2019

Decent Answers to Faith and Science

Ian Hutchinson recently wrote, Can a Scientist Believe in Miracles?: An MIT Professor Answers Questions...

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