Year: 2002

By KATHY SCHMUGGE COLUMBIA — For the seventh annual address for the Nadine Beacham and Charlton F. Hall Sr. Visiting Lectureship in New Testament and Early Christianity, the Rev. Charles Talbert a distinguished professor of […]

By KATHY SCHMUGGE COLUMBIA — What is the real task the church proposes for the Lenten journey that begins with Jesus’ 40 days in the desert and concludes on Easter? It is the conversion of […]

Basic questions and answers: questions three and four During this Week of Weeks, we celebrate on Holy Thursday the greatest gift of the Lord: the Holy Eucharist. It is called “the mystery of faith” because […]

  By JOEY REISTROFFER SPARTANBURG — Diane Nutbrown does not talk much about her faith. She is too busy living it. This college graduate blew in from Pittsburgh two years ago because she wanted to […]

Retired surgeon relays his nearly 40 years of research on the Shroud of Turin By SHEILA OJENDYK GREENVILLE — Dr. William E. Rabil has no doubt that the Shroud of Turin is the burial cloth […]

  By PAUL A. BARRA Since Lent is a time of reflection and renewal for Catholics and other Christians, many faith communities in the Diocese of Charleston hold parish missions during the season. All of […]

  By KATHY SCHMUGGE COLUMBIA — Mary Prescott lives in the Beaumont community of Columbia with her 5-year-old granddaughter. Her house is in desperate need of repair. The plumbing doesn’t work; painting needs to be […]

By TERRY CREGAR GREENVILLE — While this city’s role as host of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament subregional was getting all the attention, a group of around 500 young Catholic boys and girls — some […]

  By PAUL A. BARRA SUMTER — When players and cheerleaders suit up for the basketball season at St. Francis Xavier High School, more than half the student population is in uniform. That size limitation […]

  By KATHY SCHMUGGE LAKE WYLIE — For many youth, the 12th Annual High School Conference sponsored by the Charleston Diocese Youth Ministry Office was the top of the spiritual mountain that they have been […]