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Articles by Sister Pamela Smith, SSCM

About Sister Pamela Smith, SSCM
SISTER PAMELA SMITH, SSCM, is the Director for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs at the Diocese of Charleston. Email her at psmith@charlestondiocese.org.
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What about suicide?

March 2, 2017 Sister Pamela Smith, SSCM

During my years in Michigan, the notorious Dr. Jack Kevorkian actively promoted assisted suicide. He periodically delivered bodies to a hospital in Pontiac, minutes away from the campus where I lived. The local press wavered […]

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Life and leadership

February 18, 2017 Sister Pamela Smith, SSCM

It’s a good thing we have a Savior who is the eternal God and not a politician. Just in case we haven’t noticed, it is clear that no party platform is 100 percent pro-life, and […]

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Is an ethic of non-violence Catholic?

February 2, 2017 Sister Pamela Smith, SSCM

For years Catholics have been beset by conflict when it comes to matters of war and peace. On one hand, we have a long-standing just war tradition — dating from St. Augustine in the late […]

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Putting things in perspective

January 22, 2017 Sister Pamela Smith, SSCM

Anyone who has sat in a waiting room or kept vigil in an ER or ICU can probably verify this: Some heart-rending conversations can be overheard, and none of them seem to be concerned with […]

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Three wise men inspire South Carolina

December 18, 2016 Sister Pamela Smith, SSCM

On Nov. 30, Clemson University hosted Eboo Patel. He is the founder and executive director of Interfaith Youth Core, which links young people of many faiths in cooperative service and shared experience. After addressing groups […]

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What it means to be powerless

December 14, 2016 Sister Pamela Smith, SSCM

Every now and then something up close and personal gives us a hint of what the experience of Mary and Joseph might have been like. A sad story which came to our sisters this autumn […]

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What’s in the Koran?

October 22, 2016 Sister Pamela Smith, SSCM

During the weeks after Septem­ber 11, 2001, my religious com­munity’s motherhouse hosted a series of evening prayers. Their culmination was a gathering of roughly 600 people to hear a Muslim imam and the local Catholic […]

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Thank God it’s Monday?

October 18, 2016 Sister Pamela Smith, SSCM

Travelocity.com likes me. That seems to be true even though I have used it only on those rare occasions when I needed an inex­pensive flight to a meeting. At least once a day I face […]

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People for sale? The problem of human trafficking

September 29, 2016 Sister Pamela Smith, SSCM

In the late 1990s, when I was living in a seminary faculty residence, I was jarred by a news item about something discovered in the north­west Detroit suburbs very near our campus. Two teenagers who […]

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Helping hospice patients ‘die like angels’

September 27, 2016 Sister Pamela Smith, SSCM

The summer before I officially entered my religious community, I asked if there might be a summer job available with the sisters. Religious communities like to make sure that their sisters (in training and otherwise) […]

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