by Leslie Sholly | Jul 27, 2022 | Abortion, Catholicism, Euthanasia, law, Life Issues, Notre Dame, Vacations
I promised to tell you more about the Vita Institute, and this post will be a start. I planned to write everything up as soon as I came home, but as I came down with COVID almost as soon as I returned, I did not have the energy for anything extra. I’m going to...
by Leslie Sholly | Jul 11, 2022 | Abortion, Deep Thoughts, Euthanasia, law, Life Issues, Notre Dame, Politics, War
Pro-life Profile is a new series I plan to publish regularly. These brief interviews will highlight pro-life leaders in order to dispel the preconceptions that predominate in the mainstream press and the minds of pro-choice people. I’ll begin with my Vita...
by Leslie Sholly | May 3, 2022 | Abortion, Catholicism, Contraception, Deep Thoughts, Euthanasia, Life Issues, Notre Dame
In June, I will be attending the Vita Institute at the University of Notre Dame, “an intensive intellectual formation program for leaders in the national and international pro-life movement.” I had to apply for this opportunity, and I thought my readers...
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...
by Leslie Sholly | Apr 14, 2010 | Abortion, Euthanasia, Life Issues
Twenty-eight years ago today–and I remember well my horror at the time, the parents of a child known forever as Baby Doe apparently decided that he was not a human being deserving of love and care when they allowed him to starve rather than correct a minor...
by Leslie Sholly | Apr 10, 2010 | Abortion, Catholicism, English Literature, Euthanasia, Georgetown, Life Issues, Reprints
The following is a reprint of a column that ran in The East Tennessee Catholic newspaper on August 11, 2002. It explains the name of my former column, which is now the name of this blog. Names are important. Think of the time we spend choosing the names we give our...