Month: April 1998

By TIM BULLARD KINGSTREE — Young people gathered on Thorn Avenue last Sunday as the work of the Felician Sisters from the St. Ann Outreach Center came to fruition with the Safe Place dedication. Sister […]

AIKEN — Basketball teams from across the state, from Greenville to Myrtle Beach to Mount Pleasant to North Augusta, recently competed in the South Carolina State Catholic Youth Basketball tournament, which took place March 14 […]

ROCK HILL — Megan McKenna and Father Eugene LaVerdiere are the featured presenters for the 1998 Summer Bible Institute at the Rock Hill Oratory, scheduled for Aug. 2 to 7. “Spirituality of the Prophet” is […]

By TIM BULLARD MYRTLE BEACH — As legislators prepared to vote on gambling, the S.C. Council of Catholic Women was in Horry County, home of the majority of video poker machines in the state, hammering […]

CHARLESTON — The Sacred Chrism Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, April 7, at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist. All priests, pastoral administrators and deacons of the diocese have been […]

By JOEY REISTROFFER GAFFNEY — The big bell over Sacred Heart Church tolled a Lenten Day of Prayer in the Upstate recently, and it was something a little bit different from the norm. Father Gary […]

By MARY HOOD HART As she glanced at the front page of the paper, my teen-age daughter asked, “These cute kids killed someone?” Yes, Katie, those cute kids shot four children and a teacher. They […]