Year: 2005

BY JEFFREY KIRBY Last month, Bishop Robert J. Baker and a small group of Catholic bishops and Jewish rabbis from around the United States attended an interfaith program and pilgrimage with the Center for Christian-Jewish […]

BY SHEILA OJENDYK MYRTLE BEACH — Dreams are finally coming to fruition at St. Andrew Church. The parish broke ground on a new community life center Oct. 9, ending a weekend stewardship festival. In 1994, […]

BY KATHY SCHMUGGE COLUMBIA — It was around 2 p.m. Oct. 2, and Alford (last name withheld by request) just could not find the right place to have lunch. He passed many of his favorite […]

CHARLESTON — Healing Farm Ministries is a Christ-centered, not-for-profit corporation serving individuals and families affected by developmental disabilities. According to a press release from the organization, its mission is to establish faith communities in which […]

BY TIM BULLARD MYRTLE BEACH — St. Andrew School had a pleasant surprise Sept. 23 when it was named a 2005 Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education. Principal Molly Halasz could not […]

MANNING — Members of Manning’s first Catholic community celebrated the laying of the cornerstone for their new church on Raccoon Road Sept. 25. The stone is the cul-mination of almost five years of dreaming, planning, […]

Editor’s note: With the release of Bishop Robert J. Baker’s pastoral letter, “The Redemption of Our Bodies,” seminarian Jeffrey Kirby interviewed Catholic college students around the state to get their perspective on chastity.   BY […]

BY BROOKSI HUDSON HILTON HEAD ISLAND — Father Gregory Ramkissoon visited St. Francis by the Sea Parish Nov. 4-6 to talk about the plight of abandoned children and the poor in Caribbean and African countries. […]

DUBUQUE, Iowa — Father Philip A. Hamilton, former pastor of Holy Family Church on Hilton Head Island, S.C., died Oct. 28 in Savannah, Ga. He was 87. The Mass of Christian Burial was Oct. 31 […]

GREENVILLE — Hundreds of Vietnamese-American Cath-olics from the Upstate gathered at Our Lady of the Rosary Parish for the three-day “Seminar in the Spirit,” a retreat led by a priest and team from California. If […]