Monica Seeley

5 days 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.

2 months ago | 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.

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.

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.

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.