Greenville, South Carolina, was not a place I knew before I came to America just over three-and-a-half years ago. It is a smart modern town within view of the Blue Ridge mountains, and a hub of the motor industry, playing home to both BMW and Michelin.
Greenville is also home to Bob Jones University, a fundamentalist Protestant university with its own creed and strong insistence on the King James Version. It is, as they say, the “buckle of the Bible Belt”. But it is also a place of remarkable Catholic life. Over the past few years I have been privileged to get to know the town through its astonishing Catholic communities.
