Annie Ferguson

Catholic News Herald • 4th November 2020

A Blessed Day

So beloved is Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen at Our Lady of Grace Parish that the story of his visit, 44 years ago this month, passes from parishioner to parishioner in reverent tones. Details of his 1976 blessing of the church and school are met...

Insigniam Quarterly • 30th September 2020

Crisis Leadership in Real Time

The crises of 2020 have often reached filmic, if not biblical, proportions. The twist? There is no script for running a business during a global pandemic. Yet leaders like Joyce M. Roché, a board director of Macy’s Inc., continue to write and rewrite...

Catholic News Herald • 23rd September 2020

Building Trust

GREENSBORO — When Don and Mary Gay Brady decided to fund construction of a new home for a local family in need, they envisioned unifying fellow parishioners through teamwork for a worthwhile cause. What they didn’t expect, however, was to bridge the...

Insigniam Quarterly • 12th January 2021

Boardroom Basics

Agility in the boardroom is at once simple and complex. On the one hand, it’s straightforward: Hire the right people. On the other hand, keeping a board flexible requires constant attention and strategy, not simply contorting to fit rapid marketplace...

Catholic News Herald • 14th September 2018

Nine-week novena, veneration of relic herald patron saint’s Oct. 4 feast

MOCKSVILLE — True devotion to St. Francis of Assisi is a powerful thing. Bearer of the marks of Christ, example of purity, abounding in grace, reformer of the erring, pillar of the Church, defender of thy children, confounder of the heretics, healer...

Catholic News Herald • 31st July 2020

A Priest Forever

The story of Monsignor Joseph Showfety illustrates that a true calling to the priesthood transcends time. A priest for 65 years, he first sensed his religious vocation as a young altar server. Yet it’s easy to imagine God’s plan forming before that,...

Catholic News Herald • 3rd July 2020

The Heart of a Parish

On a most fitting feast day, the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Father Joseph Mack dedicated the new altar of St. Paul the Apostle Church. The June 19 celebration was the culmination of hard work and generosity from the parish family...

Catholic News Herald • 31st July 2020

Adventures in Christ

As a young man, Father James Solari traversed Europe and the Holy Land studying the teachings of Jesus. Sixty-five years into his priesthood and thousands of miles from Bethlehem, he calls priestly ministry his most treasured privilege.

Catholic News Herald • 22nd May 2020

Mass Al Fresco

From forests to battlefields, outdoor worship amid crisis has a storied past that includes Greensboro.

Catholic News Herald • 7th May 2020

Mercy in the Time of COVID

MOCKSVILLE — Sisters of Mercy aren’t ones to shy away from an epidemic. Ever since the Civil War, members of the order have cared for North Carolinians suffering from serious widespread diseases – yellow fever in the 1860s, AIDS in the 1990s, and now COVID-19.

Catholic News Herald • 4th June 2020

Greensboro Church Aids Sister Parish in Ecuador

In less than a week, members of St. Paul the Apostle Parish raised $11,000 for Niño Jesús, their sister parish in Manta, Ecuador. The parishioners had recently heard how their Ecuadorian counterparts were suffering as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic...

Catholic News Herald • 14th August 2019

Holy Cross Parish Welcomes New Pastor

KERNERSVILLE — On a fitting feast day – that of St. John Vianney, patron of parish priests – Father Noah Carter was installed by Bishop Peter Jugis as pastor of his first parish, Holy Cross Church. Hundreds attended the Aug. 4 Mass.

Catholic News Herald • 14th September 2019

Bishop McGuinness High School Celebrates 60 years

KERNERSVILLE — The past few months at Bishop McGuinness Catholic High School have been joyful ones as faculty and staff reminisce about the past while looking forward to a bright future as they planned activities surrounding the school’s 60th anniversary.

O.Henry magazine • 1st December 2016

Room At The Inn

There’s something extraordinary happening in Greensboro’s Historic Aycock Neighborhood, where Queen Annes, Tudor Revivals, Dutch Colonials, and Arts-and-Crafts–style bungalows stately sit along tree-lined drives. On Park Avenue in particular, you’ll...

Gifts & Dec • 3rd August 2018

A Fairytale in Floral

The story of Laura Ashley is something of a fairytale, even when looking beyond its enchanting, enduring floral designs. Inspired by a handiworks exhibit at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Laura and Bernard Ashley started the global fashion...

Catholic News Herald • 1st August 2018

Religious sisters in Mocksville live out the charism of their Belmont-based order

Wherever two or more Sisters of Mercy are gathered in His name, impressive and wondrous things tend to happen. Hospitals and schools open. Think Mercy Hospital and its former nursing school in Charlotte, Sacred Heart College in Belmont and parochial...

Catholic News Herald • 20th January 2018

President honors Greensboro Catholic charity

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A week ago, Marianne Donadio had no idea she’d be visiting the White House Rose Garden during the 45th Annual March for Life, much less be honored on national TV by the president himself. “It’s something you don’t even dream about,...

Seasons • 1st July 2018

Red, White, and Blueberries

My children think frozen blueberries are dessert. They "sneak" them from the freezer only to be betrayed moments later by indigo-hued lips so deeply tinged you'd think they'd been swimming in the Arctic.

Catholic News Herald • 1st March 2018

Special academic programs at OLG embody the universality, love in Catholic education

GREENSBORO — The Quest and PACE programs at Our Lady of Grace School in Greensboro have been a godsend, quite literally, for Triad families with children who have learning differences. The Oakleys are one such family. Danny Oakley and Stacy Creed’s...

Catholic News Herald • 28th September 2017

Parishioners restore Greenboro’s oldest Catholic church to its original splendor

True beauty stirs the heart. Just ask Bill McCutcheon about the first time he beheld the restoration of his beloved St. Benedict Church. Upon entering the quaint yet ethereal 19th-century church in downtown Greensboro, he could hardly believe his eyes.