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Monica Seeley writes on faith, culture, family, current events and life issues. Her work has appeared in Catholic World Report, Crisis, The Epoch Times , Hearth and Field, and Catholic Exchange, among others.

A graduate of Thomas Aquinas College, she writes from Southern California, where she's raising mostly grown children and wrangling chickens.

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Catholic World Report

Review: Hollow Culture, Brittle Relationships, and Spiritual Poverty

A conversation with Noelle Mering, author of No Contact: How a Seductive Ideology Broke Families and Friendships and How We Can Repair Them.

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From the Archives: for Michaelmas

Memento Mori: Thoughts of Death and Rebirth in a Reminiscent Season

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.

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