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 ...

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 ...

A week before the general elections, worshipers at the St. Gertrude the Great Catholic Church in Bell Gardens were listening to the parish announcements when Father Nabor Rios introduced a political ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) These days many celebrate St Patrick's Day, even if they're not Irish. Happily, the Catholic Church has a range of options for every day of its liturgical calendar so ...