Year: 2003

SPARTANBURG – Pope John Paul II said it best: What better gift can you give a child than to give him a brother or a sister? And what better way to bring forth a child […]

CHARLESTON – Bishop Robert J. Baker has announced that the Diocese of Charleston is adding a fifth deanery. The Hilton Head Deanery will include the Hilton Head Island and Beaufort areas. The boundaries of the […]

COLUMBIA — More than 1,000 people followed a contingent of the Knights of Columbus in the annual Stand Up for Life march and rally on a brilliant, cold Saturday morning, Jan. 11. Then they stood […]

GREENVILLE — Franciscan Sister Catherine Noecker got an early start on her vocation. As a first-grader in CCD in Buffalo, N.Y., she won a prize for knowing a few extra answers in class because her […]

MOUNT PLEASANT – With a year and a half of parish life behind him, Father Gregory Wilson, looks at a wonderful life. Ordained in June 2001, the parochial vicar of Christ Our King quickly learned […]

CHARLESTON — Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division has published “Prayers for Prisoners,” a book of prayers designed to bring the good news of God’s love to those most in need of its assurance, those in […]

CHARLESTON – Bishop Robert J. Baker has joined other Catholic prelates such as Archbishop John Donoghue of Atlanta in signing an endorsement of the definition of marriage as the union of a man and a […]

SIMPSONVILLE – The portable classrooms are gone and the off-campus religious education classes have ended. Last month, Bishop Robert J. Baker dedicated St. Mary Magdalene’s sparkling new education center that will be home to religious […]

I join my brother priests and deacons in wishing you the blessings of that great event we celebrate on this holy day—the birth of the Messiah, Jesus Christ, the Son of God. May today’s blessing […]

GREENVILLE — The long wait was well worth it. It took six and a half years to get from dream to reality, but everything finally came together on Dec. 15 when St. Anthony of Padua […]