Saints alive — St. Hildegard of Bingen, a Benedictine nun who lived in medieval Germany, speaks loudly and clearly 800 years later to a Boulder playwright and musician. The 12th-century mystic and ...

It took more than 800 years for the church to formally canonize Hildegard of Bingen. Her elevation by Pope Benedict XVI was announced May 1 at the Vatican. The 12th-century German Benedictine abbess ...

Opera has housed a long and curious fetish for the convent. Around a century ago, composers couldn’t get enough of lustful, visionary nuns. Although relatively tame next to what was to follow, Puccini ...

A patch of land behind St. Martha of Bethany Church/Shrine of All Saints in Morton Grove has been turned into an herb garden and a place for contemplation. The St. Hildegard of Bingen Garden is ...

I am sitting on my back porch with a plate of Hildegard cookies. Simple and spiced, the cookies are perfect with coffee, though St. Hildegard would have recommended wine infused with violets and honey ...

Pope Benedict XVI said we can learn from her "love for creation, her medicine, her poetry and music that is being recreated today." Last night, Sister Marie surprised us by making supper according to ...

Every gift from the Holy Spirit is meant for the edification of the community of believers, Pope Benedict XVI said in a general audience back in 2010 when he focused his catechesis on the life of St.

This middling debut from Vornholt outlines a holistic approach to physical and mental well-being based on the ideas of the 12th-century Benedictine abbess St. Hildegard. Relating the guidance outlined ...

St. Hildegard of Bingen was a twelfth-century German nun – a writer, composer of chants, mystic and visionary. You might be asking yourself, “What on earth does a twelfth-century nun have to do with ...