The Catholic Church In South Carolina

An historical sketch of the Catholic Diocese of Charleston (founded 1820) is followed by a list of White and African American congregations in Charleston and elsewhere in the state, locations of religious orders of nuns and monks, and names of people involved with churches, missions and parochial schools (5 sheets); also includes an illustrated broadside for Saint Anne's Catholic Church (Sumter, South Carolina), 2 September 1937, reprinted from the Sumter Herald. Two essays by Mrs. J.S. Ramsey describe the recently-established Christian Science congregation in Darlington, S.C., during the 1920s and 1930s (5 sheets).

Catholics' Lost Cause argues that the primary goal of clerical leaders in antebellum South Carolina was to unite Catholicism and southern culture to root Catholic institutions into the region.

Sketches an overview of religion in the region & then looks specifically at the traditions that have forged South Carolina's evangelical traditions of the Baptists & the Methodists, the liturgical churches of the Episcopalians & the Lutherans, the Reformed denominations of the Presbyterians & Congregationalists, & the Roman Catholic, Jewish, African-American, & Pentecostal congregations of the Palmetto State.

Contains a listing of societies, a membership list of the sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the League of the Sacred Heart, a brief history of St. Peter's Church, a list of pew holders, and the roll of the St. Peter's Catholic Club.

Excerpt from The Constitution of the Roman Catholic Churches of the States of North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia: Which Are Comprised in the Diocess of Charleston, and Province of Baltimore, U. S. A., As Fully Agreed To, and Accepted In process of time, in some places the most pru dent and. Zealous of the laity were either appointed by the paegle or by the Bishop to aid the priests and deacons in the management of the property. In the confusion of feudal tunes, powerful Barons and others took the property into their care as patrons, and several new abuses 'were the consequence. But those abuses were frequently withstood, and in other instances a portion Of the right of the church was yielded to preserve the rest. One great principle, however, was kept sacred and inviolable throughout, viz: That the management Of' ecclesiastical affairs was solely in the prelates, and that they had at least a negative upon the management Of church property. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.