Pope Benedict taught that St. Hildegard of Bingen was a ‘model’ religious

St. Hildegard of Bingen’s gifts served the whole Church, Pope Benedict said

St. Hildegard of Bingen. / Credit: Lettera43.it, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, Sep 17, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA). Every gift from the Holy Spirit is meant for the edification of the community of believers, Pope Benedict XVI said i... [...]

Pope Benedict taught that St. Hildegard of Bingen was a ‘model’ religious

St. Hildegard of Bingen. / Credit: Lettera43.it, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, Sep 17, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA). 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. Hildegard of Bingen, whose feast is celebrated Sept. 17 in the universal Church. Benedict praised her as a model for mode…

Pope Benedict and Saint Hildegarde of Bingen - Catholic Insight

BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Papal Summer Residence, Castel Gandolfo Wednesday, 1st September 2010  Saint Hildegard of Bingen Dear Brothers and Sisters, In 1988, on the occasion of the Marian Year, Venerable John Paul II wrote an Apostolic Letter entitled Mulieris Dignitatem on the precious role that women have played and play in the life of the Church. “The Church”, one reads in it, “gives thanks for all the manifestations of the feminine “gen…