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Monica Seeley writes from Ventura, California.
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Will Charlie Kirk’s death help galvanize the pro-life movement?

September 16, 2025 Monica Seeley 25

I looked up from my work to see a text from one of my son’s schoolmates: “Hi Mrs. Seeley, a couple of us have decided to go to the clinic and pray today just because […]

Essay

Honoring the radical choice of full-time motherhood

May 10, 2025 Monica Seeley 13

In his April 2022 essay “Are Women in the Workplace a Good Thing?” Jerry D. Salyer points out that feminism is so pervasive that even today’s conservatives consider traditional teaching on male/female roles to be […]

Books

Digging deep beneath the surface of motherhood

March 15, 2025 Monica Seeley 5

I purchased a copy of Soul Garden, A Catholic Mother’s Collective, when it was first published by Ignatius Press in November. Soon after, I couldn’t resist giving my copy away to a new mom. When […]

Features

Aramean Christians, Israel, and Gaza: An interview with Shadi Khalloul

June 4, 2024 Monica Seeley 13

Shadi Khalloul vividly remembers the moment his “American dream” died. It was the moment a teacher at the University of Nevada Las Vegas described Aramaic as a dead language. The class was studying the Bible […]

Features

Experiencing the Hamas conflict from within Israel: An interview with Channah Bardan

December 27, 2023 Monica Seeley 40

6:29 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 7. Across Israel, families were sleeping in. This Shabbat marked the final day of the high holy days. Thirty days of prayer, fasting and traditions had culminated in Friday’s joyous night […]

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Faith and reason at Hillsdale College

December 18, 2023 Monica Seeley 24

When I sent my son off to Hillsdale College in 2015, I had no idea he was going to come home an expert on Calvinism. I felt certain that his strong Catholic faith would be […]

Essay

Memento mori: Thoughts of death and rebirth in a reminiscent season

August 30, 2023 Monica Seeley 11

As I sat down to write this, August was almost over. “Big kids” had drifted off to college already, and the “littles”—no longer so little—were sleeping the sleep of the just; enjoying another couple of […]

Features

Challenging and changing the toxic environment created by contraception

July 25, 2023 Monica Seeley 25

As a newlywed, Julia Ibarra was more than a little nervous about using Natural Family Planning. She had grown up non-Catholic, with the assumption that the Pill would be part of her married life. Stepping […]

The Dispatch

Weeping with Mary: Reflections on the gift of tears

April 8, 2023 Monica Seeley 19

As a child, I accompanied my mother each day to morning Mass. And daily, after Holy Communion, I observed the same phenomenon: my mother, head in hands, absorbed in prayer. Tucked discreetly in one hand, […]

Essay

The power of a Catholic death and the joy that lies beyond

November 29, 2022 Monica Seeley 4

As November draws to a close, the readings at Mass draw our minds to the end of time—the end of all time, and for each of us, the end of our own time. Eschatological themes […]

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