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. The ...

Fifth graders at St. Katharine Drexel are celebrating All Saints Day Thursday by researching different saints and presenting their biographies to students’ parents.

Doors opened for the first time ever at St Katharine Drexel Prep. For nearly a century, the same building was home to Xavier Prep which closed its doors due to financial problems.

Jaz Hall, left, student council president of St. Katharine Drexel Preparatory School, dances in the street as she and former and current students dance to the music of the Original/Young Pinstripe ...

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 ...

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, … ...

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, seated, at the Catherine Tegawitha Indian School in Houck, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation. This photo was believed to have been taken in September 1932.

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.

Parishioners at churches named for him, including St. John the Evangelist Church in downtown Philadelphia, will surely celebrate his feast day well.