Religion plays a major role in Autism, not surprisingly. Jesus was the same 2.000 years ago as for all ages. So it’s the Bible. What better combination for Routine-lover’s Autistics. However, Change and Renewal are not the same concept.

Changes imply the introduction of new rules replacing the old ones.

Renewals are adjustments to old rules, conforming to the signs of the times.

Christian dogmas are eternal, although Church Authority given to Peter, first Pope appointed by Jesus, has the power to complement Bible teachings. 

Autistics perceive Renewals as disruptions in Routine.

Religion is undergoing lots of Renewal recently, most notably Gender Identity, Abortion, Confession.
Information is no longer impartial, Reporters are manipulated by Media.
Only associated agencies are reliable, i.e. The Catholic News Agency, though Autistics don’t spike high in discerning, they take mainstream sources the likes of Fox, CNN, ABC… as granted.

What does the Church say with regard to Renewal?

Let’s start with Gender Identity.
What used to be classified as a psychiatric disorder before the new Millennium, it has been popularized into a Pride Advocacy Movement-LGBT-thus renamed ‘Transgenderism’.
This is very Wrong either medically and morally, even more so since the Medical  Profession didn’t downplay, yet envisioned a new profitable industry in Gender Manipulation through unethical, expensive reconstructive surgery and dangerous hormonal treatments not covered by Medical Insurance, although backed up by law in private practices.

It is possible to reverse Male/Female features, not Sexual Chromosomes. 
It’s either XX or XY. 
The new body becomes a prison for persons of opposite biological sex.
Suicidal Ideation is rampant among these individuals, what plastic surgeons will never tell, understandably so…

The Church does tell! Unfortunately, its warnings go most often unheard.

Our so-called ‘All Inclusive’ society has taught us that we are the Owners of our bodies, not God.
The Church is indeed ‘All Inclusive’, it acknowledges Gender Identity as a disorder to be treated with Christian Counseling.
It doesn’t discriminate Same-Sex couples, it admonishes them.
Nobody is born with same-sex attraction, it’s a curable developmental disorder.

Abortion is regarded as another female right to do what they want with their body.
The Church’ stance is the same for Gender Identity despite the proliferation of Private Abortion Clinics.

The sad reality is a foreseeable future where public healthcare will disappear.
We’ll go to the doctor as we go to the grocery store.
Medical bankruptcy will be the next Pandemic.

To wrap things up, Confession makes it all the more disruptive for autistics.
We became accustomed with general Absolution upon repentance, although Purgatory is having a big Renewal in the Church as the antechamber to Heaven.
I must admit that the Church is not very eloquent on this subject.
Some theologians are pushing the hypothesis that Purgatory is inevitable.
Other clerics state that Purgatory is just for those who are still tempted to sin.
Others say that temptation is not a sin if we don’t give in.

I’m not against Renewals.
I only wish everyone said the same thing.

And best wishes to all.