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 ...

The remains of St. Katharine Drexel were installed last month at the Cathedral Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul. Moving her tomb from the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament’s motherhouse in Bensalem, ...

A Saint Among Us St. Katharine Drexel Share on ... I find that Navajo prayers mesh very will with the liturgy." ... --Letter from Mother Katharine Drexel, October 1902, written at St. Michael's.

Last year, on the day after Thanksgiving, I finally had the chance to visit, after years of wanting to, the Shrine of St. Katharine Drexel, the great Philadelphia heiress-turned-foundress.

She was the second American-born saint to be canonized. In 1891, St. Katharine Drexel purchased a 44-acre property in Bensalem, Pa., for her new congregation’s motherhouse, which is now up for sale.

The sacred remains of Saint Katharine Drexel (1858–1955), a member of the Drexel family dynasty who gave up a life of luxury to dedicate herself to the Roman Catholic Church, were brought back to her ...

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, … ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS)-- The Archdiocese of Philadelphia unveiled renderings of the new tomb for Saint Katharine Drexel on Tuesday. It will be constructed over the next few weeks at the Cathedral ...

A portrait of Saint Katharine Drexel is seen in the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul Tuesday, July 24, 2018, in Philadelphia. Saint Katharine Drexel’s remains, along with her original ...

Allentown, PA (18103) Today. Partly to mostly sunny. Turning less humid. There might be a very isolated shower, certainly in the morning, however the large majority of the area should stay dry. .