Fr. Matthew P. Schneider, LC

Author's details

Name: Matthew Schneider
Date registered: November 11, 2012
URL: http://22catholic.com/?page_id=6

Biography

We love Jesus. Jesus loved us first. I want to help you experience Jesus and become his apostle. I'm a priest with the Legionaries of Christ ordained in 2013, living in the Washington DC metro area where I studies at STL and helps out with various ministries. I'm also one of the top priests on social media with over 40,000 Twitter followers. I'm originally from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, but I've worked throughout North America.

Latest posts

Why the Debate about Aborting Down Syndrome Babies Matters — October 12, 2017
“Why I am Catholic?” – Bringing the Transcendentals into Apologetics — September 27, 2017
As a Church, we should value new and existing members — August 23, 2017
Applying Six Offline Models to Online Evangelization — July 8, 2017
How can we as Church do better on suicide? — June 24, 2017

Author's posts listings

Oct 12

Why the Debate about Aborting Down Syndrome Babies Matters

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Current Events, Pro-Life

by Fr. Matthew P. Schneider, LC

I recently wrote on the Catholic Stand about the wider consequences of the debate around aborting those with Down Syndrome. Iceland aborts about 98% of babies prenatally diagnosed with Down Syndrome and averages under 2 babies born with Down’s a year. CBS recently featured Iceland as “the country where Down syndrome is disappearing,” and lauded how they …

Tags: Abortion, Down Syndrome, Genetics, Iceland, pro-life

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Sep 27

“Why I am Catholic?” – Bringing the Transcendentals into Apologetics

Categories:

Book Review, Personal Experiences

by Fr. Matthew P. Schneider, LC

I wrote a review of “Why I am Catholic?” by Brandon Vogt for Aleteia. When I was in my teens and 20s I loved apologetics books. I loved learning all these scriptural zingers to hit Protestants with. It made me feel secure in my faith. But then something changed. I realized this form of apologetics, …

Tags: Apologetics, Beauty, evangelization, Goodness, Truth

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Aug 23

As a Church, we should value new and existing members

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Current Events

by Fr. Matthew P. Schneider, LC

I wrote on Crux about the current debate regarding the value of the words of cradle Catholics and converts. One aspect of genius in Catholicism is its universality. Often, we think about this when we consider how the Catholic Church has lasted 2000 years or how it has expanded to almost every corner of the …

Tags: Conversion, Cradle Catholics, evangelization, Truth

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Jul 08

Applying Six Offline Models to Online Evangelization

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Current Events, Practical Tips, Theology

by Fr. Matthew P. Schneider, LC

I wrote an article on evangelizing online on Homiletic & Pastoral Review about how to evangelize online. The Internet has now opened up as a wide field for our evangelization. Much of the cultural interchange now takes place via such electronic means. The Church is called to step out into every new forum and evangelize it, …

Tags: Catholic Answers, evangelization, Facebook, HPR, Internet, New Evangelization, Reddit, Social Media, Twitter

Jun 24

How can we as Church do better on suicide?

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Current Events, Theology

by Fr. Matthew P. Schneider, LC

I wrote a few ideas on how we can better deal with suicide earlier this week. We might think we’re among the compassionate ones. But are we really? I was speaking recently to a young woman whose friend had taken her own life. The friend had always been one of those girls with the biggest …

Tags: Depression, Psychology, Suicide

Jun 10

Catholicism Often Gets the Short End of the Stick on Both Sides of Academia

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Current Events

by Fr. Matthew P. Schneider, LC

I wrote a piece comparing Catholic institutions’ response to dissent vs. secular institutions’ response to Catholicism on Catholic Stand. Paul Griffiths is an expert on Catholic thought, holding the Warren Professor of Catholic thought at Duke Divinity School but this past month he was forced to resign for questioning liberal orthodoxy. On the other hand, last …

Tags: Catholic Schools, Catholic Teaching, Morality, School, University

Jun 03

Müller’s defense of ‘Amoris Laeitia’ reads it in Church tradition

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Current Events, Theology

by Fr. Matthew P. Schneider, LC

Card. Müller came out strongly in support of reading Amoris Laetitia last week so I summarized it and commented. On Thursday of last week, Cardinal Gerhard Müller continued his defense of an orthodox reading of Amoris Laeitia in the most forceful manner yet in an interview with EWTN’s Raymond Arroyo. Müller, the head of the Vatican’s …

Tags: Amoris Laetitia, Marriage, Morality, Müller, Theology, Vatican

May 27

Overdosing from despair: How the Church can fight the opioid epidemic

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Current Events, Personal Experiences

by Fr. Matthew P. Schneider, LC

An article I wrote a while back was finally published by Crux today. I recently had a hernia operation and was given a week’s worth of opioid painkillers for afterwards. Recovering from surgery, and dealing with the pain and discomfort inherent in such things, made me think about the current epidemic of addiction to painkillers …

Tags: Drug overdose, Drugs, heroine, Morality, opiod

May 13

A Texas parish keeps faith after a tornado destroys the church

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Current Events

by Fr. Matthew P. Schneider, LC

A story I found and covered on Crux. Simon Salinas heard that a tornado had destroyed his parish church, and knew he had to help. He was with his sister and her critically ill father-in-law in her home during the storm, and they hunkered down in the house hallway and prayed. After the tornado passed, …

Tags: Eucharist, faith

May 04

‘Amoris Laetitia’ is about accompaniment, not the divorced and remarried

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Book Review, Current Events, Theology

by Fr. Matthew P. Schneider, LC

I reviewed an excellent book on Crux today: When I subtitled my summary of Amoris Laetitia on the day it came out “About Every Family, Not Just Divorced and Civilly Remarried,” I knew the Communion issue was going to be the news of the day, but I didn’t expect it to still be an issue in …

Tags: Amoris Laetitia, book review, Chastity, Marriage

Apr 19

Churches shouldn’t endorse candidates, even if the law allowed

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Current Events, Practical Tips

by Fr. Matthew P. Schneider, LC

In wake of the impending repeal of the Johnson Amendment, the question of Priests or Churches endorsing candidates takes on new light. I present arguments against endorsement on Crux today. A new tax bill working its way through Congress might change the way religious institutions can engage in politics. President Donald Trump, at the National Prayer …

Tags: Abortion, Faith and Politics, Johnson Amendment, Marriage, Politics, Pope Francis

Apr 05

Superficializing Male Friendships

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Current Events, Personal Experiences

by Fr. Matthew P. Schneider, LC

Recently, The Federalist published a piece about male-female friendships called “Why Men and Women Can Never Be ‘Just Friends’” which was roundly criticized for its conclusions that male-female friendship is impossible. I got this from several people on Facebook and I don’t see a need to repeat. What gets me though is how it reduces male …

Tags: charity, Critique, friendship, Gender Differences, Teamwork