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.

St. Katharine Drexel was born in 1858 to a wealthy family in Philadelphia. Five weeks after her birth, her mother died. She and her two sisters were reared by their father, Frank, a successful ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - For more than 100 years, a group of Catholic nuns has shaped the lives of hundreds of students in New Orleans in the tradition of Saint Katharine Drexel.

BEAUMONT, Texas — On February 12, Katharine Drexel vowed to be the first sister of the Blessed Sacrament, where the sister educated black and Native American peoples. Members of the Catholic ...

This past week, the Catholic Church celebrated the feast day of one of her cherished daughters, Saint Katharine Drexel. She was a woman on a Gospel mission. It seemed nothing could stop her, not ...

St. Katharine Drexel, a Philadelphia heiress, founded the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, with their motherhouse in Bensalem. She was canonized a saint in 2000 by Pope John Paul II.

But the thousands who attended the Canonization Day Celebration held Sunday at the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament Motherhouse in Bensalem seemed no worse for wear for having lost a little sleep, … ...

Volunteers unload bags of groceries at the Saint Katharine Drexel Food Pantry in Chester. The Pantry will open its doors at a new location on Tuesday, Sept. 5. (COURTESY PHOTO) ...

SAN DIEGO — Saint Katharine Drexel Academy, a private Catholic school in San Diego, is at risk of closing at the end of the school year unless it raises $500,000 and increases enrollment by 30 ...