Month: August 2003

CLEMSON — The parties may be over for now, but the celebration continues for Father Jerry Aylward. The 81-year-old Paulist priest’s jubilee year has been commemorated by parties and remembrances at four parishes — St. […]

COLUMBIA – Some recent statistics say the average worker changes employers every 3 to 5 years and the average marriage lasts about the same. Father Robert Fix has beaten the odds by celebrating his fiftieth […]

Ten years ago on August 15, 1993, Pope John Paul II summoned the youth of the world to a pilgrimage in the peculiar location of Denver, Colo., in the heart of the United States. This […]

NEW YORK — Liberia, social action and Sept. 11, 2001, were topics at the annual Roundtable Social Action Summer Institute held at St. John’s University in Queens, N.Y. The Roundtable Association of Diocesan Social Action […]

We hear all the time about the shortage of Roman Catholic priests, but this became a real issue for me personally during my five-month deployment to the Area of Responsibility (AOR) in support of Operation […]

CHARLESTON — Revisions to the Diocese of Charleston’s sex abuse policy have been completed and now the diocese awaits its turn in a national audit to document the progress made in implementation of the United […]

SIMPSONVILLE – Once the Conner Ministries Center was complete and blessed by Bishop Robert J. Baker, parishioners of St. Mary Magdalene wasted no time putting it to use. A grand opening for the St. Mary […]

CHARLESTON – Last year’s fire at Our Lady of Mercy Church on America Street didn’t phase the staff and the volunteers at Neighborhood House, the soup kitchen downstairs. They just found other ways to offer […]

GREENVILLE – Friends and supporters of Catholic social ministries couldn’t get outdoors July 28 to sprinkle holy water on the site of their new center, but God took care of that. Lightning flashed, thunder rumbled […]

AIKEN – On July 26, St. Mary Help of Christians celebrated its 150th anniversary as a parish with a special Mass, dinner and dance. Bishop Robert J. Baker was the main celebrant for the liturgy, […]