Year: 2006

BATESBURG-LEESVILLE — “Being here put me back on the right track,” Jessica Sproch said of the diocesan Christian Leadership Institute for high school students. The 16-year-old member of Our Lady of Lourdes in Greenwood said […]

CHARLESTON — Cardinal Francis Arinze, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the  Sacraments, made a special visit to the Diocese of Charles-ton and celebrated Mass at the Cathedral of St. […]

COLUMBIA — Recent reports about the escalating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah have had a special impact for one South Carolina-born priest. Father Rick Vanderwater, affiliated with the Diocese of Jerusalem, spent the past 32 […]

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 […]