Year: 2002

By JORDAN MCMORROUGH CHARLESTON—To honor 35 educators who have each spent 25-plus years teaching in the diocese, a special Mass in their honor was held at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist May 13. […]

By KATHY SCHMUGGE In the month of May, soon after Easter, Catholic children prepare to receive the life-changing sacrament, their first holy Communion. This important milestone in a Catholic’s life brings both joy and hope […]

By PAUL A. BARRA COLUMBIA — The big question being asked at the LARCUM conference this year was “How can we be authentic Christians while still being open to ideas of people from other faith […]

by JORDAN MCMORROUGH CHARLESTON — A rainy, chilly Pentecost Sunday saw people who were received into the church or baptized at the Easter Vigil services throughout the diocese come together at a Mass for Neophytes […]

By KATHY SCHMUGGE COLUMBIA — The South Carolina Christian Action Council, joined by the Catholic Diocese of Charleston, stood on the steps of the state capital May 17 urging for a moratorium on the death […]

  By MSGR. THOMAS R. DUFFY Pentecost Sunday, Christians throughout the world are invited to reflect upon and to celebrate their roots and their mission, that is, their reason for being Christians. St. Luke writes […]

by Phil Grant My name is Phil Grant, and I am a second career seminarian studying for the Diocese of Charleston. I am completing second-year theology at Blessed John XXIII Seminary just outside of Boston, […]

By SHEILA OJENDYK NORTH CHARLESTON—”You are ambassadors of the Holy Spirit in our world, and your being ambassadors of the Holy Spirit brings joy, Christian joy into our world,” said Bishop Robert J. Baker. He […]

  By MARY MARSHALL ROCK HILL — More than 600 Vietnamese Catholics celebrated the second annual Mass honoring Our Lady of LaVang at St. Anne Parish last Sunday. Bishop Robert J. Baker along with Franciscan […]

By JORDAN MCMORROUGH CHARLESTON — Bishop Robert J. Baker ordained seminarians Carson Bush, Thomas Kingsley, and John Zimmerman to the order of deacons May 11. They were joined at their ordination Mass at the Cathedral […]