Month: August 2001

  Q: I belong to two Christian lay discussion groups — one Catholic and one inter/nondenominational. They both to one degree or another espouse the “saved” concept — meaning the idea is promulgated and tacitly […]

  by NANCY SCHWERIN Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing. —Oscar Wilde The overwhelming load of experiences gained in a Clinical Pastoral Education program is overshadowed only by the extensive amount of […]

By KATHY SCHMUGGE COLUMBIA — “Brace yourself, for if you take in what you are about to hear, you will never see things in the same way,” said dynamic speaker Christopher West, who articulated with […]

  By TIM BULLARD The Cursillo movement is active in South Carolina, yet many Catholics do not know much about it. There is a man in the Pee Dee who knows a lot about it […]

2nd year theology at Notre Dame Seminary, New Orleans Birthplace/date: Columbia, SC, Aug., 22, 1964 Home parish/location: St. Ann’s in Florence Family: parents deceased, three brothers Favorite aspect of seminary: spiritual formation Most difficult aspect […]

  By SHEILA OJENDYK GREENVILLE — St. Anthony of Padua School celebrated its 50-year jubilee in grand style at the Fluor Center Aug. 4 with the theme “Keeping Hope Alive Since 1951.” Special guests included […]

CHARLESTON — The Cathedral Center hosted the Prudential Youth Leadership Institute June 18-20 and July 16-18. In the first session, 10 students represented schools and youth groups from throughout the Charleston area. Five Cathedral teens […]

  By SHEILA OJENDYK SIMPSONVILLE — An intriguing piece of mail was delivered to St. Mary Magdalene Church in January of 2000. Jesuit Father Herbert K. Conner, pastor, passed the correspondence from the Stephen Ministry […]

  By DOROTHY GRILLO The vestiges of slavery here in the United States still exist in symbols and lingering prejudice. In Africa, as well as other countries, however, slavery is an ongoing reality for millions […]

  by PATRICK HARWOOD College students living like monks? And doing so voluntarily? It may sound far-fetched but that’s exactly what a group of College of Charleston students did this summer as part of a […]