Year: 1999

By RANDLE CHRISTIAN COLUMBIA  It’s Fat Tuesday, and the University of South Carolina’s Newman Club has gathered for its weekly meeting at the St. Thomas More Center. In the spacious living room about 40 […]

“Forgotten Fires,” a PBS special about church burnings in South Carolina, will be broadcast at 10 p.m. on Thursday, April 29, on all SCETV stations. The program investigates the burning of two black churches near […]

By DEIRDRE C. MAYS CHARLESTON — The Bon Secours religious community celebrates 175 years of service in health care, this year. Seven sisters came to Charleston Feb. 24 to join locally assigned Sister M. Gemma […]

By MSGR. THOMAS DUFFY With the surprise victory of Governor James Hodges, a Democrat, over Governor David Beasley, a Republican, one thing has not changed; both are in favor of the death penalty. This, of […]

By JULIE CAVANAUGH GARDEN CITY — “We are salt for your people! We are light for your world!” the crowd of students responded. With a theme of “Discipleship and the Sermon on the Mount,” over […]

Ceremonies marking the celebration of the Rite of Election and the Call to Continuing Conversion involving hundreds of people were held in four locations across South Carolina recently. Bishop David B. Thompson presided over the […]

By SHEILA OJENDYK GREENWOOD — How Our Lady of Lourdes adopted Queen of Peace Parish in the Marshall Islands is a story within a story that might have never happened if Michael Paulin didn’t dislike […]

By NANCY SCHWERIN More than 200 courageous, spirited, devoted women gathered to share in a soul-searching day, filled with the word of God and lessons in spirituality. “All Sisters in God’s Grace: Women, Wisdom and […]

By TIM BULLARD CONWAY — Archbishop Desmond Tutu spoke against racism Feb. 18 at Coastal Carolina University as a local group reignited a passionate opposition to the Confederate flag flying above the Statehouse in Columbia. […]

By FATHER JEROME SCHWAB Three years ago this writer submitted an article called “What is Truth?” In that article I wrote that since God is one, he can possess only one truth, and that truth […]