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1 month ago | 
catholicexchange.com | Monica Seeley
When I dropped off my high schooler at St. Augustine Academy each morning last week, a large, hand-lettered yellow sign still greeted me, propped against a stucco wall, proclaiming "Viva Il Papa!"As exams and award ceremonies marked the end of the school year and carpools pulled out for the last time, no one wanted to take it down. It was a reminder of a day that students, teachers, and parents will long remember as one of the happiest in our little school's 31-year history.
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1 month ago | 
catholicworldreport.com | Monica Seeley |Robert Barron
(Image: Hollie Santos/Unsplash.com)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 distasteful. Salyer describes “the extent to which many centuries’ worth of Catholic commentary about sex differences has simply been filtered out as if it were nothing.
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Mar 15, 2025 | 
catholicworldreport.com | Monica Seeley |Catherine Harmon
(Image: Ignatius Press / www.ignatius.com)I purchased Soul Garden, A Catholic Mother’s Collective when it was first published by Ignatius Press in November. Soon after purchasing and reading Soul Garden: A Catholic Mother’s Collective, published in November by Ignatius Press, I gave away my copy to my mother. When it came time for this interview, I borrowed a copy, which was quickly requested back so its owner could give it to a friend as a birthday gift.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
catholicworldreport.com | Monica Seeley |Carl Olson
Shadi Khalloul with a 17th-century Aramaic Bible, saved from the Maronite church in Kafr Bir'im when the village was evacuated in 1948. (Photo: Jana Shimonov)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 as literature, and had encountered the Aramaic words spoken by Christ, Talitha kumi.
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Dec 27, 2023 | 
catholicworldreport.com | Monica Seeley |Carl Olson
Menorahs in the old city of Jerusalem, lit for the hostages still in Gaza. (Photo courtesy of My Beautiful Land of Israel.)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 of feasting, Simchat Torah. Families had come together; singing and dancing with the Torah had continued late into the night.
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
catholicworldreport.com | Monica Seeley |Catherine Harmon
Christ Chapel (left) and Central Hall (right) at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan. (Images courtesy of Hillsdale College)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 safe at the conservative Michigan college, but it was a far cry from the very tiny, very Catholic school I had attended, and I wasn’t sure what to expect.
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Aug 30, 2023 | 
brownpelicanla.com | Monica Seeley
Left-Wing Catholics Who Endorsed Fr. James Martin are Accusing Scott Hahn of ‘Schism’, by Raymond WolfeAugust 31, 2023 By Monica Seeley, Catholic World Report, Aug. 30, 2023Monica Seeley writes from Ventura, California. The practice of “memento mori”—remembering our own eventual deaths—might be a cause for anxiety. But for the Christian, it should be a means of peace. As I sat down to write this, August was almost over.
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Aug 30, 2023 | 
catholicworldreport.com | Monica Seeley |Michael Richard
(Image courtesy of the author.)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 nights of carefree rest, untroubled by homework, due dates, and crowded schedules. My house was quiet as I took stock of another summer ending. Each summer, I struggle with melancholy. It usually settles in about a week after school gets out.
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Jul 26, 2023 | 
brownpelicanla.com | Monica Seeley
By Monica Seeley, Catholic World Report, July 25, 2023Monica Seeley writes from Ventura, California. A conversation with Julia Ibarra, founder of MagentaYou.com, about women’s faith, health and fertility. 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 away from that place felt insecure and raised a host of questions for her.
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Jul 25, 2023 | 
catholicworldreport.com | Monica Seeley |Catherine Harmon
Julia and Jaime Ibarra and their seven children. (Photo courtesy of the author)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 away from that place felt insecure and raised a host of questions for her. Increasing her anxiety, there seemed to be remarkably few resources for newly married couples to learn about NFP.
