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By JORDAN MCMORROUGH CHARLESTON — Bishop David B. Thompson joined with the clergy, religious and laity of the Diocese of Charleston in celebration of the Chrism Mass last Tuesday, March 30, at the Cathedral of […]

By KATHLEEN SCHMUGGE COLUMBIA — As the March Madness basketball playoffs were battled out, a spiritual championship took place at the Embassy Suites here, March 19-21. The South Carolina Council of Catholic Women (SCCCW) held […]

By DEIRDRE C. MAYS CHARLESTON — The Franciscan sister who helped Our Lady of Mercy Church put an ebony corpus over its altar has had a chance to see the results of the parish’s prayers […]

By MSGR. J. DONALD GORSKI May God’s peace and grace fill you during this holy season! May the crucified and risen Lord fill you with new life! I pray that these final months of the […]

By PAUL A. BARRA JAMES ISLAND  On a balmy October morning in 1998, Jackie O’Shaughnessy and her grandson Rhett were enjoying their time together as they strolled down to the creek that runs behind […]

By JORDAN MCMORROUGH Oratorian Father Halbert D. Weidner, a priest of The Oratory of St. Philip Neri in Rock Hill, has been in residence in Hawaii since the early 1990s. He serves at Holy Trinity […]

By NANCY SCHWERIN For Father George F. Moynihan 25 years in the priesthood has gone by fast. He has been in an assignment since his ordination by Bishop Ernest L. Unterkoefler on Dec. 7, 1974, […]

By DEIRDRE C. MAYS Father James M. Brucz was born in Buffalo, N.Y. Growing up in a Polish family he was raised with deeply Catholic tradition. He knew he wanted to be a priest as […]

By MSGR. LAWRENCE MCINERNY I would like to address an area of concern that touches on several areas: pastoral theology, morality, and politics. Very simply, I anticipate a movement toward legalization of various forms of […]

By MOST REV. DAVID B. THOMPSON Strange as it may seem, it is a fact that on the first Holy Saturday only the enemies of Jesus felt or feared that he might rise from the […]