Year: 2002

By Terry Cregar GREENVILLE — At 6-foot, 3-inches tall, Nick Mershon seems to be a natural for the basketball court. But, it’s the baseball diamond where the rising St. Joseph’s High School senior excels, and […]

  by Nancy Schwerin CHARLESTON — They came; they believed; they were “Set Free.” The first-ever Steubenville Charleston drew 1,000 youth from Florida to Delaware. For three days, July 21-23, high school teens filled the […]

  By Kathy Schmugge COLUMBIA — The Office of Hispanic Catholics held an open meeting June 22 at St. John Neumann Church in Columbia to discuss the past, present, and future of the ministry. The […]

  By Deirdre C. Mays COLUMBIA — The topic of child sexual abuse is so fraught with emotion that it is difficult to address from any perspective. The Diocese of Charleston took a stab at […]

  by Msgr. J. Donald Gorski More than two years ago my sister, Sister Caritas, wrote an article for The Catholic Miscellany with pictures showing a couple of the young people who bring us bread […]

  by Mary Marshall ROCK HILL — Eighty Hispanic, Vietnamese and American Catholics came together to celebrate the feast of Corpus Christi on June 3 with a procession through the tranquil grounds of the Oratory […]

by Nancy Schwerin GREENVILLE — Sister Clarita Frericks is retiring. At 75, she says it’s time to join her community back in Ohio. But she takes with her a legacy of 69 years. When she […]

by Nancy Schwerin SUMTER — Four boys and one girl made up the graduating class at St. Francis Xavier High School. It was a graduation made possible by a very small group of Catholic parents. […]

by Deirdre C. Mays CHARLESTON – Louisa Storen, a licensed independent social worker and marriage and family therapist from Mount Pleasant, has been selected as the Diocese of Charleston’s new victim assistance minister. As part […]

by Deirdre C. Mays CHARLESTON — A new priest has entered the flock and will begin a lifetime of celebrating the sacraments. Lee Selzer was ordained to the priesthood of the Diocese of Charleston June […]