Month: August 2001

By MSGR. DON GORSKI Today — Tuesday — is my day off. I went into Tumbes (a half-hour away) to the bank, the post office, and to do various chores. When I got back, a […]

  By JORDAN MCMORROUGH CHARLESTON — Almost a century and a half after his death, the life of Jesuit Father James Wallace continues to fascinate researchers and scholars. Early this year, diocesan archivist Mary Giles […]

  By SARAH FRANCES HARTLEY A happy child skips down a grassy path hand in hand with a teen-ager who listens intently to the child’s cheerful chatter. Although this child appears to be happy and […]

By BISHOP ROBERT J. BAKER The Diocese of Charleston is fortunate to have two religious sisters laboring in our diocese with Native Americans, Sister Carol Dulka and Sister Mary LeQuier. The two sisters have been […]

By SHEILA OJENDYK GREENVILLE  African-American Catholics traveled from all over South Carolina to meet with Bishop Robert J. Baker at St. Joseph High School to follow-up from a previous listening session held Feb. 17. […]

  CHARLESTON  Five students from the College of Charleston joined their peers from the world over at the 2nd Annual Prince of Liechtenstein Catholic Leaders Fellowship. The conference, held in the Swiss-Franco region of […]

  By DEIRDRE C. MAYS LANCASTER — An interdenominational group of quilters meeting at St. Catherine Church Aug. 4 thought ordering pizzas would be an enjoyable repast, but they got an extra topping of anti-Catholic […]

  By BISHOP ROBERT J. BAKER President Bush’s statement Aug. 9 on embryonic stem-cell research prompted immediate response from Catholic leaders and theologians around the country. Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston applauded him for setting […]

  By KATHY SCHMUGGE COLUMBIA — What turns in life could lead a successful Columbia police officer to become a Benedictine monk? In the case of Butch Paczkowski, he would give all the credit to […]

  By JORDAN MCMORROUGH CHARLESTON — A day of recollection, observed on the feast of St. John Vianney, Aug. 3, drew eight priests and five seminarians to the Drexel House for volunteers on Wentworth Street […]