Month: July 2006

ASTON, Pa. — Franciscan Sister Agnes Assisi Shipley died July 9 in Assisi House at the age of 91. A professed member of the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia for 77 years, she served […]

GREENVILLE — St. Mary School  has said goodbye to Sister Veronica Janas, the principal who has led the school since 1988 and gathered faculty, staff and parents into what one admirer describes as a “community […]

MONCKS CORNER — The public is invited to join the Brothers of Mepkin Abbey for “A Celebration of Place,”  a community celebration and dedication honoring the abbey’s African heritage. The event  will be on Labor […]

WEST COLUMBIA — Msgr. Roy Francis Aiken, a retired priest of the Diocese of Charleston, died July 4 at Still Hopes Episcopal Home. He was 87. The Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated by Bishop […]

A delegation of 11 from the Diocese of Charleston attended the First National Encuentro for Hispanic Youth and Young Adult Ministry at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana June 8-11. The group was led […]

The editor of The Catholic Miscellany, Deirdre C. Mays, joined a group of Catholic journalists from the United States as they toured Fatima and other religious sites in Portugal. The trip was sponsored by Regina […]

BATESBURG-LEESVILLE — Where, in a span of four hours, can a junior high school student scramble under picnic tables, dance to praise-and-worship music, pray quietly, go swimming, and watch a skit about an Irish family […]

GREENVILLE — After visiting New Orleans, Kathleen Merritt, director of the Office of Ethnic Ministries for the Diocese of Charleston, told The Catholic Miscellany that the needs of the hurricane victims in Louisiana and Mississippi […]