Year: 2001

  By CATHLEEN A. CLEAVER In the nearly 30 years since Roe vs. Wade, the church has educated people about the sanctity of life and the reality of abortion, provided care for pregnant women and […]

  ROCK HILL — St. Anne School celebrated “50 years of excellence in Catholic education” with a Mass and dinner at St. Anne Church on Sept. 15. Retired Bishop David B. Thompson, representing Bishop Robert […]

  By JORDAN MCMORROUGH CHARLESTON — Cardinal Avery Dulles, one of the pre-eminent theologians in America, spoke at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist the evening of Sept. 28 concerning a recent Vatican document […]

  By JOEY REISTROFFER and REBECCA CRONICAN GREENVILLE — “Don’t ever be ashamed to be seen with your mother,” Scott Hahn told hundreds of people who had packed themselves into the gym at St. Mary’s […]

  By TIM BULLARD GARDEN CITY — The new fellowship hall at St. Michael Church was turned into a Hall of History on Sept. 30 with photographs from the past and an impressive display of […]

  By JESUIT FATHER JOHN O’HOLOHAN When I was a senior in college, I read an article in the Saturday Evening Post entitled, ‘The Jesuits, the Pope’s Commandos.’ Beneath the full-page photo of a scowling […]

  By KATHY SCHMUGGE COLUMBIA — For those who have prayed for Christian unity, the LARCUM (Lutheran, Anglican, Roman Catholic, United Methodist Alliance) Conference held on Sept. 29 was a sign that God has been […]

  CHARLESTON — Father Leland J. White, a priest of the Diocese of Charleston and distinguished educator and author, died in the Holy City Sept. 27 after an extended illness. Born in Charleston on July […]

  By PAUL A. BARRA GLOVERVILLE – One day after his second anniversary as bishop of Charleston and three days after the feast of St. Vincent de Paul, Bishop Robert J. Baker journeyed to this […]

  By NANCY SCHWERIN It’s not often that an interdenominational group of Christians come together as one group working toward the same goal. Rather than coming together to search for a common ground, Lutherans, Methodists, […]