On Nov. 16 the Catholic Church celebrates the memory of a distinguished medieval nun and writer in the Benedictine monastic tradition, Saint Gertrude of Helfta, better known as "St. Gertrude the Great ...

SHE is called the Great because of her mystical experiences and profound methodical discussion of the Incarnation and Holy Trinity. Sick much of her lifetime, “she received many revelations and ...

Sr. Mary Jeremy Finnegan, the renowned Sinsinawa Dominican poet and scholar, noted in The Times Literary Supplement in 1952 that Hopkins was paraphrasing words Jesus spoke to Gertrude: "When I behold ...

Pope Benedict XVI continued his series of teachings on some of the great women saints of the Middle Ages. He spoke Oct. 6 about St. Gertrude the Great, a contemporary of St. Matilda of Hackeborn, the ...

On Wednesday morning Pope Benedict focused his weekly address on the extraordinary life of a 13th-century German woman and saint, St. Gertrude the Great. From her life, the Holy Father said that ...

A Diocese of Corpus Christi elementary school will be shutting its doors forever. The Kingsville school is closing because of a decline in enrollment, among other things, according to a news release ...

Pope Benedict XVI resumed his series of teachings on some of the great women saints of the Middle Ages. He spoke Sept. 29 about St. Matilda of Hackeborn, whose sister was St. Gertrude the Great. St.