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 | Nov 22, 2015 | books, Deep Thoughts, Politics, War
Unless all your Facebook friends think exactly like you, your newsfeed is probably like mine right now–completely polarized on the issue of admitting Syrian refugees to the United States. On one side are those who believe that terrorists will take advantage of...
by Leslie Sholly | Oct 6, 2012 | Abortion, Catholicism, Deep Thoughts, Life Issues, Politics, War
This is Part 2 of a story which begins here. Â It chronicles the unforeseen results of my having had the temerity to publish a column on voting in the local Catholic press just before the 2004 elections. I felt good about what I had written. Â I thought I had expressed...
by Leslie Sholly | Oct 1, 2012 | Abortion, Catholicism, Deep Thoughts, Life Issues, Politics, Reprints, War
This is an edited version of a column I wrote in the fall of 2004.  At the time I was extremely disturbed by the vitriol surrounding the Presidential campaign, particularly that directed by Catholics toward other Catholics, presuming to assert that there was only one...
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...