Year: 2002

By Terry Cregar GREENVILLE — A team of softball all-stars from South Carolina finished third in a national World Series, and a trio of Catholic girls played key roles in the team’s success. Lauren Hawkins […]

by Nancy Schwerin CHARLESTON — In 1997, St. Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, Calif., sought to attract students through a unique summer program. “The idea was that if we brought students out for two […]

By Sheila Ojendyk GREENVILLE — Representatives from the Palmetto State took home some powerful memories from the National Black Catholic Congress in Chicago Aug. 29. People were awed from the start by the procession for […]

BY PAUL A. BARRA COLUMBIA — It was the kind of adversity that could have devastated the morale of a small, poor, black city school. Instead, St. Martin de Porres School of this capital city […]

By Joey Resitroffer SPARTANBURG — A good friend died the other day, and I never got to say goodbye. I never got to introduce her to my newborn son. Now I never will. That’s hard. […]

CHARLESTON — Bishop Robert J. Baker celebrated a Mass for Prayer and Healing for victims of sexual abuse at Bishop England High School Aug. 29 in conjunction with the Day of Prayer called for by […]

By Bishop Robert J. Baker On Sept. 11, we will celebrate the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in […]

By Kathy Schmugge COLUMBIA — If the goal of the first in-service for the Charleston Diocese Catholic Schools’ staff was to motivate, John Novak, Ph.D., was the ideal choice. The professor and former chair of […]

By Sheila Ojendyk GREENVILLE — There’s a “new wind blowing” in Catholic social justice according to Franciscan Sister Margie Hosch, director of Catholic Charities for the Piedmont Deanery. All over the United States, people in […]

By Tim Bullard CONWAY — Since the Diocese of Charleston opened the Office of Immigration Services earlier this year, its coordinator and attorney, Glenda Bunce, has been on the move. She’s bringing her services to […]