Not quite but pretty close?? Lbr catholicism and its refusal to allow for holy women besides Mary could stand to have a lot more holy sisters in the mix. As for his father hoping he'd be closer to the disciple thanks to being named after him, well, that's a romantic way of looking at it. Matt never got a chance to really ask his father why he'd picked Matthew, of all disciples. If there was some connection his father wanted for him. If it was just an obvious catholic name and a 1 in 12 chance, and he'd ended up with this one.

It's a little wistful to wonder, too. "I hope so," he muses, a little distantly. He'd like to think Jack had a plan, even though frankly, that doesn't sound much like his father. "I never got the chance to ask."