Year: 2004

GREENVILLE — A student and teacher of interreligious dialogue shared some of her experiences at Furman University Feb. 4. Benedictine Sister Mary Margaret Funk told nearly 100 students and other audience members that dialogue between […]

FORT MILL — Catholics in the South are generally a religious minority. Not in Fort Mill. New faces are something parishioners at St. Philip Neri expect. The church has grown incredibly since it started 10 […]

ROCK HILL — After serving as provost of the religious community known as the Congregation of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri for 25 of the past 35 years, Oratorian Father Joseph A. Wahl is […]

FORT MILL — Father John Giuliani, pastor of St. Philip Neri parish in Fort Mill, was elected provost of The Oratory in Rock Hill Feb. 3. He will serve a three-year term. The new provost […]

COLUMBIA — At the beginning of February, a month that recognizes the accomplishments of African- Americans in this country, the young and the old gathered at St. Martin de Porres Church in Columbia to hear […]

Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans is the only Catholic seminary in the United States that has a mission trip in the Third World as a required part of its formation program. Each December, seminarians […]

GREENVILLE — Jason Oakes, Scott Dunn and Jonathan Arrington are three young men who are seriously discerning God’s call to the priesthood in their lives.  All three are converts to the Catholic faith. Oakes became […]

COLUMBIA — The week of Christian Unity came to a close Jan. 27 with the Lutheran- Anglican-Roman Catholic-United Methodist Bishops’ Ecumenical Dialogue Prayer Service at St. Peter Church in Columbia. Bishop Lawrence J. Mc-Cleskey, representing […]

What is the Bishop’s Stewardship Appeal?    The Bishop’s Stewardship Appeal (BSA) is the annual fund-raising drive for the Diocese of Charleston. This effort began in 1962 and was known as the Diocesan Development Fund. Each […]

My Dear Friends in Christ, Each of our parishes is a local expression of the diocesan church. Each parish, whether it be in the Piedmont, on the coast, or a small rural mission is a […]