Articles by Christina Lee Knauss | The Catholic Miscellany

GREENVILLE — Four women are in training to become the Diocese of Charleston’s next instructors and advocates for the Creighton Model FertilityCare System of natural family planning. The Creighton Model is based on observing and […]

ROCK HILL — Finding the special vocation God has in store for every person was the central focus of the 2008 Diocese of Charles ton Black Catholic Heritage Celebration, held Oct. 17-18 at St. Mary […]

COLUMBIA — The S.C. State Fair is not a place most people would expect to find the faithful handing out rosaries and St. Michael prayer cards beneath a portrait of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. […]

COLUMBIA — Luanne Malkasian lost her 19-year-old daughter Anne to leukemia more than 20 years ago. On Oct. 4, the Columbia resident said she felt a renewed connection with her daughter after attending a special […]

SUMMERVILLE — Msgr. Edward Lofton visited the island nation of Fiji in February and March. He helped at a parish where residents are poor, electricity is spotty and most roads are not paved. What the […]

GEORGETOWN — Photographs of smiling and laughing children paper a wall in the office of the Birthright crisis pregnancy center.Pawleys Island resident Len Vercellotti points to a small framed photo on the opposite wall. The […]

KINGSTREE — Lucille Watson of Charleston dedicated all four of her boys, Ilya, Stas, Vlad and Max, to Mary when she adopted them from Russia. She said the boys, who are home-schooled, are now preparing […]

SUMMERVILLE — Joseph Gubeli’s decades of service with the Knights of Columbus were rewarded in July when he was installed as the state deputy of the Catholic fraternal men’s organization in South Carolina. It is […]

ORANGEBURG — Bess Alston had just retired from a teaching career in 2002 when she took on a new role helping an entirely different group of students. She is now the director of Catholic campus […]

HILTON HEAD — Blandine Schilling, 99, has become one of the best-known members of St. Francis by the Sea Church. She attends daily Mass so faithfully, always sitting in the front row, that when she […]