Month: January 2001

  By JORDAN MCMORROUGH WINTERPLACE, W.V. — Close to 350 teens from 18 parishes across the Palmetto State took part in the first annual diocesan ski trip and retreat Jan. 12-15 in Winterplace, W.V. Buses […]

  By JORDAN MCMORROUGH CHARLESTON — A consulting group that developed a strategic plan for diocesan schools in the Midlands early last year was busy at work in the Coastal and Pee Dee deaneries late […]

  By NANCY SCHWERIN CHARLESTON — While schools are daily facing the challenges of mainstreaming children, new obstacles continue to arise. St. John’s in North Charleston is meeting the challenges head on — as a […]

By BISHOP ROBERT J. BAKER The Convocation of Priests, Jan. 15-17, and of leaders of various parish and diocesan programs of education and service on Jan. 18 was a great opportunity for priests, deacons, religious […]

By JOEY REISTROFFER SPARTANBURG — Fallout from the war in Bosnia continues to spill as families driven from their homeland search the world for new roots. The Hasonovich family fled the bullets and bloodshed of […]

4th year student at St. Vincent Seminary   Birthplace/date: Greenwood, Oct. 14, 1972 Home parish, location: St. Joseph’s, Columbia Family: mom and dad in St. Matthew’s, two sisters, one brother Favorite aspect of seminary: having […]

  By SHEILA OJENDYK SIMPSONVILLE — Bishop Robert J. Baker told St. Mary Magdalene parishioners that Sunday, Jan. 14, “was not ordinary time because of the gifts of the Knights of Columbus.” Council 10189 had […]

BY KATHY SCHMUGGE COLUMBIA — In an attempt to preserve their Filipino Catholic culture in America, Emily Lacson and Ernesto Hernando, parishioners at St. Joseph Church and St. John Neumann Church in Columbia, initiated the […]

By PAUL A. BARRA COLUMBIA — Christians of many faiths celebrated the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity with an ecumenical worship service at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral on Sunday afternoon, Jan. 21. The service was […]

  By DEIRDRE C. MAYS COLUMBIA — The best kind of gifts are not the ones that come wrapped in pretty paper and curling ribbon, they are the individual gifts that God gives. The lay […]