Articles by Paul A Barra | The Catholic Miscellany

GREENVILLE — High school swimming has evolved in South Carolina into an adjunct, season-opening program for the state’s serious year-round swimmers.So it was especially satisfying for the swimmers of St. Joseph’s Catholic School to see […]

SPARTANBURG — Forty Days for Life is the umbrella campaign in South Carolina and elsewhere that gathers and concentrates efforts to promote pro-life causes. A centerpiece of the campaign is the annual Life Chain.The idea […]

GREENVILLE — The fifth annual Rock for Life rally on Sept. 6 was made-to-order for teenaged boys: unlimited pizza, smiling girls and loud music. But the event served a greater purpose, and its intent was […]

LYMAN — A priest who has served the Diocese of Charleston from the Lowcountry’s coast to the foothills of the Great Smokies has begun a new career in his retirement. Father Charles J. Snopek has […]

SIMPSONVILLE — The crowd loved the rhythms of the traditional Negro spirituals and they loved the beautiful sounds of Haydn’s Mass of “St. Jean de Dieu,” but when the boys sung Danny Boy with a […]

GREENVILLE — In an attempt to evangelize proactively, St. Mary Church hosted a “Challenging Catholics” panel discussion in Gallivan Hall on July 17. “This event is just to be a little more positive, to give […]

GREENWOOD — Since they already worship in a church that can only be described as a soaring basilica of light, the people of Our Lady of Lourdes parish decided to go one better in building […]

SPARTANBURG — He played curmudgeonly Mr. Potter in one of his five high school theater performances, but now it looks as if he may have the lead role in his own reality show of  “It’s […]

ANDERSON — Twice every week, a Catholic man goes into a small room to face 15 or so hardened criminals, sometimes he is alone, sometimes he is accompanied by a  retired priest. He doesn’t like […]

GREENVILLE — Nearly 600 high school students and their parents came to Greenville County’s Carolina First Center on April 1 for 90-minutes of “Parents, Teens and Alcohol.” They were immediately rendered mute by a dramatic […]