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Monica Seeley writes from Ventura, California.
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 […]

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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, […]

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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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25 Years of Thursdays: On the life, death, and continuing witness of Angela Baird

April 27, 2022 Monica Seeley 16

March 3, 2022: it is the second day of the spring 40 Days for Life campaign in Ventura, California. The calendar is mostly empty, not surprising as the campaign gathers momentum. But Thursdays are already […]

Essay

“I decided to do something about it”: The legacy of Fr. Claude Heithaus

February 27, 2022 Monica Seeley 9

A few years ago some old memories came back to me unexpectedly. In the first, I am a child, kneeling beside my mother. A priest in fiddleback vestments is saying Mass at a white marble […]

Books

“Suppression of dissenting voices is a feature, not a bug…”

January 7, 2022 Monica Seeley 19

Noelle Mering’s new book Awake, Not Woke: A Christian Response to the Cult of Progressive Ideology (Tan Books, 2021), takes as its theme Ephesians 5:14: “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ […]

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“We have disregarded the fundamental principle of First Do No Harm.”

December 12, 2021 Monica Seeley 22

Dr. Monique Robles is a board certified pediatric critical care physician and bioethicist. She received her Doctorate of Medicine from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas, in 2001 and completed a pediatric […]

Features

Exploring the dark world of vaccines and fetal tissue research: Part 2

May 26, 2021 Monica Seeley 24

Editor’s note: The following is Part 2 of a two-part essay on the complex and often disturbing relationship—scientifically, historically, and otherwise—between the creation of vaccines, the eugenics movement, and the abortion industry. Part 1 is on […]

Features

Exploring the dark world of vaccines and fetal tissue research: Part 1

May 17, 2021 Monica Seeley 79

Editor’s note: The following is Part 1 of a two-part essay on the complex and often disturbing relationship—scientifically, historically, and otherwise—between the creation of vaccines, the eugenics movement, and the abortion industry. Part 1: The […]

Features

“We few, we happy few”: On Joe Scheidler’s joyful legacy

January 22, 2021 Monica Seeley 2

Over the next several days, pro-lifers across the country will gather to mourn the 48th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Thousands will join peaceful vigils outside abortion clinics or march in state capitals. Although the […]

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