by Leslie Sholly | May 28, 2010 | Babies, Catholicism, Contraception, Georgetown, Life Issues, pregnancy, Reprints
I’m posting this column reprint as a followup to my “Why Stop at Two” post of a few weeks ago. In that post, I talked about why we’ve chosen to have a big family; this post focuses on the Catholic Church’s teachings on family size. This...
by Leslie Sholly | May 18, 2010 | Catholicism
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by Leslie Sholly | May 16, 2010 | Catholicism
Just this morning, as my husband and I were rushing through breakfast and trying to wake our older kids up for Mass, I said, “Sometimes I envy those people who post things on Facebook like, ‘Having a peaceful Sunday morning reading the paper,’ ...
by Leslie Sholly | May 11, 2010 | Catholicism
Sitting outside this evening, I smelled the honeysuckle and looked over at our garden statue of the Blessed Mother and suddenly found myself launching into “‘Tis the Month of Our Mother.” (I frequently burst into song at the least provocation and...
by Leslie Sholly | May 10, 2010 | Babies, Catholicism, Parenting, Reprints, Uncategorized
In honor of Mother’s Day I am reprinting this column, which appeared in the ETC about two years ago. When Emily started kindergarten at St. Joseph School in 1996, the largest family at the school had four children. What happened to all the big Catholic families,...
by Leslie Sholly | Apr 27, 2010 | Abortion, Catholicism, Euthanasia, Life Issues, Politics, Reprints, War
This is a reprint of the very first column I had published in The East Tennessee Catholic. Although it appeared in late 2001, I had actually written it over two years before, as one of three sample columns which were rejected by the then-editor. What does it mean to...