Year: 2005

BY SHEILA OJENDYK MYRTLE BEACH — “This is a monumental undertaking,” said Sister Susan Kresse while waiting in line. She was one of many volunteers checking in for practice on March 26 at the Palace […]

It’s late at night, and I’m sitting in our lovely rectory chapel overlooking the Pacific Ocean. I often say, “If you can’t pray here, you can’t pray anywhere.” I’ve been sitting here giving thanks to […]

BY KATHY SCHMUGGE COLUMBIA — “The Immaculate Conception” by Jusepe de Ribera (1591-1652) has been displayed in the Columbia Museum of Art since 1962, evangelizing those who pass by with its message of hope and […]

WINNSBORO — For 15 years the youth of the Diocese of Charleston have come to get spiritual sustenance at the annual high school youth conference in the spring. This year was no different as hundreds […]

BY SHEILA OJENDYK GARDEN CITY — Susan Starr, director of youth ministry at St. Michael Church, remembers last summer’s hurricane season very well. “We watched and waited, just like they did,” as hurricane after hurricane […]

GREENVILLE — When 50 young adults met in a dimly lit, subterranean coffee shop called Carpenter’s Cellar on March 10, they had brighter, higher things on their minds. It was the monthly meeting of Theology […]

BY BROOKSI HUDSON GOOSE CREEK — Immaculate Conception Church held its annual parish mission March 6-10 with Benedictine Father Edmund McCaffrey as the keynote speaker. The theme for the mission is a carry-over from the […]

Editor’s Note: Father Gary Linsky, a priest of the Diocese of Charleston and a U.S. Air Force chaplain, is currently stationed in Iraq. He wrote this letter in January to share his experience. Dear Friends/Family: My […]

CHARLESTON — Father Nicholas R. Bayard, a retired priest of the Diocese of Charleston, died March 18. He was 84. The Mass of Christian Burial was March 23 at the Cathedral of St. John the […]

BY BROOKSI HUDSON CHARLESTON — Sister Pam Smith gave a talk on Catholic teachings on justice and peace March 3 as part of a series offered at Blessed Sacrament Parish. Sister Smith, a Sister of […]