Year: 2002

  By ANDREW C. LENNON SUMMERVILLE — Looking for three hots and a cot? Then Palmetto House may not be the right homeless shelter for you, according to Eric Saunders (not his real name), an […]

  By SHEILA OJENDYK SPARTANBURG — Religious and lay leaders from Catholic, Lutheran, Episcopal, and United Methodist churches gathered together on Jan. 27 at St. Paul Lutheran Church. LARCUM, an ecumenical association of Lutherans, Anglicans, […]

  By BISHOP ROBERT J. BAKER In this Year of Evangelization, the holy season of Lent provides us a special time of grace and spiritual renewal so that we may become better instruments in sharing […]

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 […]