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. Â 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. Â 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. Â 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? Â 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. Â A slate roof tile from the church, as a matter of fact. Â With a new roof being...