Year: 1999

By MSGR. DONALD GORSKI My last article describes 1998 as one of the most stress-filled years of my life. I wrote then of the difficulty of coping with the effects of El Niño. Before the […]

By PAUL A. BARRA MOUNT PLEASANT — Mark C. Dickson wanted to know his older brother better, but didn’t realize what he’d have to go through to accomplish that goal. He had to save his […]

BY JOEY REISTROFFER SPARTANBURG — Kathy Michels is hunting for history. So the president of St. Paul’s Women’s Club put on a tea party for past leaders of the Catholic circle in hopes of jogging […]

By DEIRDRE C. MAYS CHARLESTON  An image of Christ watches over those who come in and out of the doors of Our Lady of Mercy Church. Over the altar, on a wall bare for […]

In a recent letter sent to pastors and pastoral administrators, Bishop David B. Thompson wrote, “During my visit to St. Louis recently for the Holy Father’s visit there was a very special blessing which I […]

Many hundreds of potential Catholics will make their way to churches around the state to make an important step in the Rite of Christian Initiation, Feb. 19-22. Catechumens for the Rite of Election and candidates […]

REV. SCOTT BUCHANAN With the coming of the new millennium and all of the preparations for it, Pope John Paul II recently announced a series of regulations for the gaining of special indulgences for the […]

By JORDAN MCMORROUGH LEXINGTON — A stained-glass window depicting the holy family — Joseph and Mary holding the Christ child — was installed in December above the main entrance at Corpus Christi Church. It was […]

By DEIRDRE C. MAYS CHARLESTON — Jodie Parker never meets a stranger. Ask anyone who knows her and they will tell you “it’s a pleasure to deal with Jodie.” Her humor, warmth and willingness to […]

Bishop David B. Thompson told parishioners at St. Paul the Apostle, “I came here to praise you.” The bishop was in Spartanburg on Jan. 31 for the Piedmont Deanery Diocesan Development Fund donor recognition Mass. […]