Month: February 2001

By NANCY SCHWERIN In 1979, Birthright opened its doors in the Greenville community with the help of the Diocesan Development Fund. Twenty-two years later the outreach organization is growing steadily helping pregnant women achieve life. […]

We cannot stand idly by, enjoying our own riches and freedom if, in any place, the Lazarus of the twentieth century stands at our doors. Pope John Paul II By JIM MYERS We should all […]

  My dear brothers and sisters in Christ: This weekend represents the start of the annual diocesan appeal. Since 1962, this appeal has been called the Diocesan Development Fund (DDF). Recently, after consultation with the […]

  In 1982, the Diocesan Development Fund was 20 years old and going strong with this campaign: Early in 1962, Bishop Paul J. Hallinan, seeing the need for more financial assistance for the growth and […]

By TIM BULLARD CONWAY — With food galore and bilingual readings, parish members and friends of St. James Church celebrated a mission Sunday Jan. 28 with the theme, “We are the Body of Christ,” along […]

By SHEILA OJENDYK GREENVILLE — The United Nations has decreed 2001 to be the International Year of Volunteers. With that fact in mind, members of St. Anthony’s Outreach and Evangelization Committee chose the theme of […]

  By JORDAN MCMORROUGH CHARLESTON — Results from the first phase of a diocesan strategic planning survey are in, and vocations to the priesthood and the shortage of clergy was identified as the top priority […]

  Bishop Robert J. Baker supports the direction President Bush is taking to establish a White House office that would distribute public money to religious groups and charities. “Religious institutions and churches can work hand-in-hand […]