Articles by Paul A Barra | The Catholic Miscellany

GREENVILLE — Jan Carino finally believed it when the earth moved. Carino has been the athletic director of St. Joseph’s Catholic School for the past eight years. Each fall she labors to schedule practices and […]

GREER — Nearly 700 Catholics came together to celebrate their faith with prayer at Our Lady of Vietnam Park Oct. 9. The occasion was the third annual Rosary Celebration, sponsored by the Diocese of Charleston. […]

GREENVILLE — The crowd that came to hear a discussion of end-of-life issues at St. Mary’s Gallivan Hall on Oct. 20 heard three different perspectives from pro-life advocates. The most surprising talk was that of […]

GREENVILLE — Hundreds of Vietnamese-American Cath-olics from the Upstate gathered at Our Lady of the Rosary Parish for the three-day “Seminar in the Spirit,” a retreat led by a priest and team from California. If […]

SIMPSONVILLE — Jesuit Father Herbert K. Conner has been pastor of St. Mary Magdalene Parish for so long now that parishioners know a generous and caring man lies beneath the sometimes gruff exterior. They like […]

GREENVILLE, S.C. — Two Bishop England High School graduates have entered the religious life. On Aug. 6, the feast of the Transfiguration, Katie Vaughan and Katherine Melton were received into the novitiate of the Dominican […]

PICKENS — Parishioners at Holy Cross Church celebrated its 40th anniversary Sept. 11 with a solemn Mass and a spirited party. The pastor used the symbolism of the cross of Christ, the inspiration for the […]

KINGSTREE — Father Michael C. Okere represents the new breed of priest serving the rural parishes of South Carolina. He is young, well educated, dynamic, dedicated to his ministry and he rides the circuit among […]

GREENVILLE — Mark P. Shea calls himself a double-jump convert, and that is one reason the St. Mary Church Center for Evangelical Catholicism sponsored his three talks Aug. 27-28. Shea is an award-winning author of […]

GREENVILLE — They came to meet their pope, and they discovered their bishop in the process. Nearly 40 Catholics from South Carolina joined hundreds of thousands of others who journeyed to Cologne, Germany, for World […]