The story of Saint Katharine Drexel is unlike any other. Cordelia Francis Biddle, a creative writing professor in the Pennoni Honors College and member of the extended Drexel family, captures the ...

Katharine Drexel founded and funded schools in Carencro. Curious Louisiana discovers if local land donor Sosthene Arceneaux gave her a ride to one of those locations in his horse-drawn buggy.

Throughout her life, St. Katharine Drexel’s chief motivation was to help more people to know and love Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.

THEN: Mother Katharine Drexel, a Philadelphia heiress who established an order of nuns dedicated to working with Native Americans and African Americans, founded Xavier University in what would be ...

Saint Katharine Drexel, the niece of Drexel University founder Anthony J. Drexel, was sainted in 2000. Her sacred remains were transferred to the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul this year.

A false alarm. After his visit to Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility in Northeast Philadelphia, many speculated that Pope Francis would make an unannounced stop to the Shrine of St. Katharine ...

“Gives Up Seven Million!” So the newspa-pers reported when wealthy, young Katharine Drexel of Philadelphia said Yes to the novitiate and “No more” to the world — or, at least, to the ...

In 'Katherine Drexel and the Sisters Who Shared Her Vision,' the historian Margaret McGuinness has performed another valuable service to American Catholic history.

Members of the Catholic Diocese of Beaumont still tell stories of St. Katharine Drexel protecting her schools from the KKK to this day.

Katharine Drexel was a dynamic and zealous apostle to the peripheries in the United States. She never met a stranger, and she never considered anyone a foreigner to her heart.

One of the only two schools still operated by the Catholic Diocese of San Diego faces a demanding deadline in order to stay open. St. Katharine Drexel Academy in the College Area is working to ...