Fr Matthew P. Schneider, LC

"Silence belongs to the realm of the unknown. It is in the realm of hearing God’s voice. It is in many ways like the darkness of night. It is a mysterious place which we become aware of only by adjusting our senses." My reflection: frmatthewlc.com/blog/2026/03/0…

Oh, I get that modern ones are safe... But if you can build small ones closer to customers, you reduce loss in electrical transmisison, which is significant. I studied electrical engineering before the seminary so I know about power transmission loss, but I am not involved enough to know the efficiency difference of small vs big nuclear reactors.

@ClimateAudit @FrMatthewLC Regulation's a BIOG factor in reactor plant costs, much of those costs being up front. Designs have to be cleared by expert regulators whose mandate comprises ensuring absolute (as possible) safety. Once a design's cleared, clearing a location is a big thing when ...

Ontario is another jurisdiction that went heavily nuclear (55-60%) of all electricity on top of 20-24% hydro. Canada has its own variation of nuclear reactors using heavy water as a moderator. All of this was developed two generations ago, but Ontario is now reviving nuclear development. After regrettable sidetrack into wind - which is singularly inappropriate for Ontario.

@ClimateAudit @TankiesFTW I think a lot of small reactors are higher safety, so high that you can put them or right beside residential areas. If that's the case then the less efficient reactor would likely be made up by the much shorter transmission.

@TankiesFTW I don't understand the rationale for "small" reactors. In every other heavy industry, large equipment is more efficient.

@BruvverEccles Copleston was a convert?

*** The World Cup of Catholic Converts *** Round 2 Group 4/7 The top 2 go into Round 3. priest/philosopher - writer - priest/hymn writer - priest/theologian

*** The World Cup of Catholic Converts *** Round 1 Group 1/14 AntiNazi - Actor - Priest - Novelist

Hacked? I'm think so.

God give us his unlimited love. This should help us endure whatever comes.

@iowahawkblog 1 hectare is close enough to 2.5 acres that I just use that for conversion talking to people from outside Canada and the USA.

Because the USA is denominated in miles. There are 640 acres in a square mile. 640 can be divided by 2 easily. A square half mile is 160 acres, a square 1/4 mile is 40 acres, a square 1/8 mile is 10 acres. Nobody in America knows what a kilometer is, let alone a hectare

If you or someone you know is thinking about a vocation, Holy Week is a great time to discern. My community offers a retreat for young men thinking about priesthood &/or religious life. @lccheshire lccheshire.org/event/holy-wee…

Let's be clear. Anti-Semitism, which is a hatred rooted in ethnic or religious reasons, is evil. However, disagreement with the political and military actions of the modern state of Israel is not that.

@ThomasWatsonCD I realized this after my mom got it ofr me one year.

@FrMatthewLC Which is smart because your public coverage likely isn’t in force without the residency requirements

Why would you cross a border without travel health insurance? I'm a dual citizen & buy it every time I go to visit family in Canada (where I'm a citizen).

The issue is that they want to ban them from any government contracts, even by vendors, not just military use. The military can say we don't want an AI that says it cannot be used to kill people on the battlefield, but a totally different thing to say all uses are banned by the governemtn or government contractors. For example, there is no risk for a company contracted by USDA to analyze a bunch of argicultural production data using Claude as the iussue the gov't has is only relevant for military. There are probably plenty of vendors who have simialr moral issues to Anthropic but there is not a reasonable way their products are used to kill people on the battlefield. The designation given before has only be placed on companies known or highly suspected to be owned by adversaries with the intention of spying (very different from the issue with Claude).

I'm a subject matter expert in this. Anthropic will lose this lawsuit. The military manages two types of risk: mission and safety. The vendor simply delivers product risk reports. But Anthropic announced they would veto the military's mission risk management decisions ... which is itself a critical mission risk. They earned their supply chain risk designation.

Anthropic is in the right legally to say that it won't participate in autonomous weapons & the US government is not following its own laws & rules when blacklisting them over this. Several top Catholic scholars concur & wrote an amicus brief. cruxnow.com/church-in-the-…

I still find it a little surprising that anyone can pull up voter rolls like this in the USA. I'm registered to vote in both the USA & Canada: it took me <1 minute to find my US registration online without any paywall or password, but I gave up trying similarly for Canada. (You likely can't as CT made me enter my birthday.)

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What if wombs had windows? (At the Connecticut March for Lifel

@shebringsjoy There might be a few. Are you with the group with bright green LCMS hats?

@FrMatthewLC Are you with the group singing the salve Regina right now?

Hello friends- We are gathering a small group of East Coast pro-life people to attend the Connecticut March for Life on March 18th: will you be there?

Another set of signs at the Connecticut March for Life.

.@lccheshire at the Connecticut March for Life.

Women & babies are both victims. (At the Connecticut March for Life)