Month: March 2003

COLUMBIA — On March 15, Hispanic leadership from throughout the diocese, worked on the draft of a one-year plan for 2003-2004. Most of the meeting was spent on fine-tuning the ideas that emerged from the […]

The statistics for fatherless families are startling. In 1992, 45 percent of American families headed by single women had incomes below the poverty level. Thirty-eight percent of America’s poor are children. The statistics go on […]

WHITE OAK — The 13th annual diocesan youth conference blasted off over the weekend of March 7-9 at the White Oak Conference Center. It was a raucous affair, blending music and spirituality, laughter and prayer, […]

LEXINGTON — More than 500 people signed themselves with the cross with holy water or signed their names in the Book of the Elect in preparing to join the Catholic Church in South Carolina over […]

Plans for a major renovation of the Carter-May Home started to take shape back in 1992, but cost concerns and the rapid changes in the long-term care market had the project on hold for almost […]

CHARLESTON — The groundbreaking and blessing for the St. Joseph Residence at the Carter-May Home Feb. 24 was an intergenerational affair. The female residents of the home were joined in celebration by retired priests, children […]

MYRTLE BEACH — Rapacious, greedy, voracious and insatiable describe a hyena, and when you look up the word “predatory” regarding House Bill 3125 and Senate Bill 17 on high-cost loans in South Carolina, you get […]