by Leslie Sholly | Apr 13, 2017 | Catholicism, Parenting
I’m blessed to still be a member of the very parish in which I was baptized as an infant. Most of the past nearly 50 years of Sundays have found me sitting (standing and kneeling) in a pew at Immaculate Conception Church. And like most Catholics,...
by Leslie Sholly | Nov 2, 2016 | Abortion, Catholicism, Deep Thoughts, Politics
Twelve years ago, dismayed at all the misunderstandings and hatefulness I was seeing among Catholics over the Presidential election, I decided to write a column about it for the East Tennessee Catholic. I thought I could dispel those misunderstandings and the...
by Leslie Sholly | Apr 15, 2013 | Catholicism, Deep Thoughts, Parenting
Dear Mom in the Pew in Front of Me, the One with the Rowdy Kids: No, I am not going to write about how much your kids disturb me during Mass. I’m not going to suggest that you take them to the nursery (we don’t have one anyway!) or sit with them in the...
by Leslie Sholly | Nov 20, 2012 | Catholicism
So yesterday I posted a picture of the slate I got from my church roof, and my sister thought she saw a face in it. Please don’t think I’m attributing miraculous intervention into this and I’m not going to offer my slate for sale on ebay, but I...
by Leslie Sholly | Nov 19, 2012 | Catholicism, Knoxville
Can you guess what this is? If you were at Immaculate Conception Church this morning you probably can, but I’m guessing everyone else is going to be puzzled. It’s slate. A slate roof tile from the church, as a matter of fact. With a new roof being...