Year: 2001

  By KATHY SCHMUGGE LEXINGTON — On Dec. 8, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, the Columbia area young adults group, Capital City Catholics, aware of the great significance of the Blessed Mother, gathered to […]

By PAUL A. BARRA SUMTER — Our Lady of Guadalupe is the patroness of the Americas. A feast day celebration at St. Jude Church in Sumter on Dec. 15 demonstrated just how diverse a constituency […]

“We may be hurt, but we will have life and lots of it.” Msgr. Joseph Roth by NANCY SCHWERIN At the start of the millennium there was discussion about whether the year 2000 or 2001 […]

By BISHOP ROBERT BAKER In our reflections throughout the year 2001 on Reconciliation, we have highlighted the need for our Catholic community to extend a welcome to diverse racial, ethnic, cultural and linguistic groups in […]

By NANCY SCHWERIN NORTH CHARLESTON — A group of eight St. John School students recently brought home several new golden trophies. The trophies made of yellow Legos were a reward for 10 weeks of innovative […]

  By BISHOP ROBERT J. BAKER On Dec. 31, 2001, the Diocese of Charleston concludes its Year of Reconciliation with its December intention — Union of Mind and Heart with God. Our monthly themes for […]

  On Christmas Day we celebrate the arrival of the long-awaited one, the one promised to the people of Israel, the Messiah. His name is Jesus, and he is the Son of God, our savior. […]

by JORDAN MCMORROUGH CHARLESTON — An effort by a group of volunteers to place an additional Catholic media presence on the Internet is taking to cyberspace on Dec. 14, the feast day of Our Lady […]

by FATHER JAY SCOTT NEWMAN After nearly 500 years of separation, what hope exists for Catholics and Lutherans to find a path to the restoration of full, visible communion? None, unless both sides talk to […]

In South Carolina, the flame, a symbol of past and future greatness, brought together dozens of wonderful stories of inspiration in the torchbearers. by NANCY SCHWERIN  Some of the South’s most inspirational personalities carried the […]