Articles by Paul A Barra | The Catholic Miscellany

RICHBURG – Pentecost is a major celebration for Catholics in Chester and Lancaster counties every year, but the 1997 liturgy was special even so. More than 400 parishioners of St. Michael in Great Falls, St. […]

CHARLESTON – Secretaries general from eight countries visited the see city of the Diocese of Charleston last weekend for a working session of sharing and coordinating. They took the opportunity while here to “celebrate the […]

AIKEN – After 24 years as the principal of St. Mary Help of Christians School, Sister Rosemary Boyd is retiring at the end of this academic year. The people who know her best are not […]

The Miscellany profiles the three priests who will celebrate this year the 50th anniversary of their ordination to the priesthood: Rev. Jerome C. Powers, Rev. Msgr. J. Fleming McManus and Rev. Msgr. John A. Simonin […]

(EDITOR’S NOTE: April is National Volunteer Month and this week The Miscellany takes a look at one group of the many volunteers across the Diocese of Charleston.) CONWAY-Most people think of a big orgganization when […]

McCORMICK – She is applauded as a ‘wonderful leader,’ but Sister Joan Kobe knows it is God who truly leads Sister Joan has advanced degrees and decades of training and expeience to prepare her, yet […]

CHARLESTON – Of the 115 active parishes on the Diocese of Charleston, 14 have morw than 1,000 families on the books, while 17 have less than 50 members. According to recent figures compiled by the […]

JAMES ISLAND – Imagine the trauma of waking up to darkness one morning after nearly 40 years in active church ministry, to discover that the pain you thought was sinusitis was really a disease that […]

By MARK MOSSA “Pizza Love” was the buzzword for 1997’s Diocesan Youth Conference, March 7-9. Keynote speaker, Mary Beth Nonacci, challenged the 350 youth in attendance asking: “Do you love pizza like you love your […]

CHARLESTON Tenelle Wright had been waiting for the signal for five months, five months of sliding ever closer to liver failure and a lingering death; when the ringer went off it meant that an organ […]