Year: 2005

CHARLESTON – Dorothy Grillo’s impact on Catholic social ministries in South Carolina will be felt far into the future. Grillo stepped down on May 12 as director of the Office of Social Minis-tries and Catholic […]

ROCK HILL – St. Anne School will have a new leader on June 12 when Lawrence McLaughlin takes over as principal. “I am humbled by the selection and truly excited about the opportunity to work […]

BATESBURG – A group of women gathered at the Kinard Conference Center April 28-30 for the first Rachel’s Vineyard retreat in the Columbia area. The retreat, sponsored by the Diocese of Charleston’s Family Life Office, […]

CHARLESTON – Two seminarians will be ordained as new priests for the Diocese of Charleston June 3. They are of widely different ages and backgrounds, but both men have in common a deep commitment to […]

NORTH CHARLESTON – Volunteers at Echo House are rewarded with joy. They hear songs and prayer from the senior citizens they serve, and are witnesses to spontaneous praise for what other people take for granted. […]

CHARLESTON – Timothy Gahan, Andrew Trapp and Jeremi Wodecki have officially become members of the clergy and have accepted the responsibilities that entails. The three men were ordained to the transitional diaconate by Bishop Robert […]

CHARLESTON – John Barker has joined the Diocese of Charleston as its new chief financial officer. Barker, 48, is the former chief financial officer of the Claremont Restaurant Group in Mooresville, N.C. The company manages […]

AIKEN — Registration is underway for the Diocese of Charleston’s 2005 Family Life Conference, “Made in God’s Image: From Womb to Tomb,” at St. Mary Help of Christians Church. Each parish is encouraged to send […]

BY KATHY SCHMUGGE COLUMBIA — Jackie McSorley, a fifth-grader from St. Joseph School, won this year’s Catholic Schools Spelling Bee with a word that would make Martha Stewart blush: tippee. A tippee is one who […]

Below, Bishop Robert J. Baker, retired Bishop David B. Thompson and Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory of Atlanta give their reflections on Pope John Paul II. The 264th Pope, Vicar of Christ, and successor of St. […]