Month: July 2009

EDGEFIELD — Father Robert W. Ninedorf,  pastor of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception Church, died July 6. He was 81. The Mass of Christian burial was held July 11 at St. Mary. Father Ninedorf […]

CHARLESTON — The Knights of Columbus raised a record amount of money this year, bringing in over $360,000 to help children and adults with special needs. Joseph F. Gubeli Jr., state deputy, attributed the success […]

CHARLESTON — EWTN’s Marcus Grodi will lead an inspiring list of speakers to spark the faith at the Diocese of Charleston’s biennial Fire at the Beach conference set for Sept. 18-19 at St. Francis by […]

CHARLESTON — Three dozen teen and adult volunteers armed themselves with tools of the construction trade to repair eight homes in Charleston and North Charleston. The group was working with the Columbia-based, non-profit Home Works […]

CHARLESTON — The Ursulines are a worldwide community of Catholic sisters who originated in Brescia, Italy, in 1535. They have been a part of religious life in South Carolina from the very beginning, when the […]

SIMPSONVILLE — With the state’s unemployment rate at 12.1 percent and with literally hundreds of parishioners out of work in many churches, some business professionals in the Upstate decided to do something about it. A […]

SIMPSONVILLE — “Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how did this doctrine grow?” Michael Cumbie made up that little ditty when he was an anti-Catholic Southern Baptist preacher for almost 30 years. When he learned that Mary […]

CHARLESTON — Barbara Cole, principal of St. John Neumann School in Columbia, added another award to her collection when she was named a National Distinguished Principal by the U.S. Department of Education. She is one […]

AIKEN — Putting on a play about the life of an important saint is hard enough. Pulling it off in 15 minutes, with just a handful of props pulled from a plastic storage container,  might […]

CHARLESTON — Before 1994, most people were unaware of Rwanda. It is a dot on the map of Africa, nestled among the larger countries of Tanzania, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is […]