Month: January 2002

By MSGR. THOMAS R. DUFFY A number of people throughout the world have expressed concern about the treatment of the men our government captured in Afghanistan and are now holding as prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, […]

  The life of a priest is busy to say the least. In this column, The Miscellany readers will get a glimpse at a priest in action. In the spotlight here is Father Jeffrey Kendall, […]

By NANCY SCHWERIN CHARLESTON — The installation to the Ministry of Acolyte was held at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist on Jan. 19 for 29 men in diaconate formation for the Diocese of […]

by MSGR. THOMAS R. DUFFY In October 1966, Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan and his then auxiliary bishop, Joseph L. Bernardin, issued a joint pastoral letter to the people of the Archdiocese of Atlanta on the […]

  by KATHLEEN CARR I’ll never forget the time my dad and I talked about the difference between public and private schools. He said that I went to a Catholic school, and he thought that […]

  by PAUL A. BARRA NORTH AUGUSTA — They’re oppressed peoples, but even those who want to help them don’t know how to label them. The pope calls them gypsies or nomads, but neither term […]

  by JORDAN MCMORROUGH CHARLESTON – A joyful noise could be heard coming from the confines of Nativity Parish Monday night. The church’s fifth annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ecumenical prayer service for […]

  After the state pro-life rally in Columbia on Jan. 13, Wanda Franz, Ph.D., spoke to The Miscellany about her involvement on the National Right to Life Committee (NRTL) and the future of their work. […]

  by NANCY SCHWERIN CHARLESTON — Conway Park is official. Named in honor of Franciscan Sister Maigread Conway, it is a gathering place for the countless people whose lives she touched on earth and for […]

by PAUL A. BARRA SUMTER — Catholics in the Midlands of South Carolina have a French aristocrat to thank for the development of their faith tradition. Natalie Delage Sumter, godchild of King Louis XVI, was […]