News and Events

(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 […]

By GARY P. RICHARDS, PH.D. CHARLESTON – Bishop David B. Thompson provided an inspirational witness on the importance of listening during a recent ultreya at St. Joseph’s Church. An ultreya is a monthly meeting of […]

By JOEY REISTROFFER GREENVILLE – The war is over in Croatia, but the pain remains. Five years of bombing and hatred that spilled over the country along the Adriatic Sea have ravaged the economy and […]

By MARY HOOD HART In 1992, the American Association of University Women released a study indicating that girls are being shortchanged in schools across America. The study reported that teachers were more inclined to call […]

By JULIE DOWNS RIDGELAND – Many Lowcountry Catholics have fond memories of youthful summers spent at Camp St. Mary’s. The planned transformation of the camp’s site into a county park should provide similar memories for […]

By DIANE C. BULLARD The nation recognizes April as Child Abuse Prevention Month with mixed emotions as it is faced with the reality of record high numbers of abused children. The Children’s Defense Fund reports […]

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 MARY HOOD HART I’m not a sports fanatic, by any stretch of the imagination. On Super Bowl Sunday, according to my husband, Jim, I’m one of only five people across the globe who aren’t […]