Year: 2005

NORTH MYRTLE BEACH – A desperate father, a parishioner at Our Lady Star of the Sea Church, is making a plea to other Catholics and anyone else who will listen. He’d like to find someone […]

CHARLESTON – While meditating on the suffering of Jesus Christ on the cross, Bishop Robert J. Baker asked South Carolina Catholics to consider the suffering of immigrants and strangers. During his Good Friday homily at […]

COLUMBIA – Don’t buy what “The Da Vinci Code” is selling. That’s the message author and commentator Amy Welborn gave to about 100 people gathered at the University of South Carolina on April 5 for […]

First, I’d like to thank Bishop Baker for inviting me; it is an honor to be addressing all of you. When I was an altar boy at tiny Sacred Heart Mission in the town of […]

CHARLESTON – This year’s chrism Mass was a time to focus on promoting ethnic sensitivity and welcoming the stranger. Bishop Robert J. Baker encouraged Catholics to be accepting of other cultures. “With an influx of […]

FOLLY BEACH – At more than 50 years old, Our Lady of Good Counsel Church at Folly Beach needed many repairs, both large and small. So did the church’s Msgr. Robert Kelly Hall (a garage […]

Special to The Miscellany FOLLY BEACH – After five years in the Diocese of Charleston, Father Thomasaiah Reddimasu is leaving for India in early May. The pastor of Our Lady of Good Counsel, a priest […]

GREENVILLE – Evangelical Cath-olicism can pique curiosity, inspire, or get Catholics in touch with their faith. David Tiede Hottinger hopes it does all three. As director of the Center for Evangelical Catholicism at St. Mary […]

MYRTLE BEACH – Women religious from around the state gathered in April for a meeting on religious collaboration sponsored by the Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina. It was the second event of its […]

BY FATHER GARY LINSKY  | THE CATHOLIC MISCELLANY Dear Friends/Family: Late yesterday afternoon, my Air Force Theater Hospital chaplain called me.  They had just admitted an “expectant,” a young man so severely wounded that he […]