St. Hildegard of Bingen, Doctor of the Church!

I will go and chill some champagne (or should it be German “Sekt”)? We have a fourth woman who now is among the “Doctors of the Church.”

Teresa Berger

Teresa Berger is Professor of Liturgical Studies at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale Divinity School in New Haven, CT, USA, where she also serves as the Thomas E. Golden Jr. Professor of Catholic Theology. She holds doctorates in both theology and in liturgical studies. Recent publications include an edited volume, Full of Your Glory: Liturgy, Cosmos, Creation (2019), and a monograph titled @ Worship: Liturgical Practices in Digital Worlds (2018). Earlier publications include Gender Differences and the Making of Liturgical History (2011), Fragments of Real Presence (2005), and a video documentary, Worship in Women’s Hands (2007).

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5 responses to “St. Hildegard of Bingen, Doctor of the Church!”

  1. Ellen Joyce

    I re-read your chapter on her last night in honor of the occasion! And I have a bottle of dry white from the Bingen vineyard that a colleague brought me over the summer–I will chill it this weekend.

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  2. Alan Hommerding

    I may wear my “Heretic in Good Company” t-shirt to celebrate.
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    I know that at least three of the four female Doctors of the Church – Teresa, Catherine, and Hildegard – got in trouble during their lifetimes for being critical of the hierarchy and abuses within ecclesial structures. Hope for the LCWR?

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  3. Rita Ferrone

    This is wonderful.
    She has been on the fast track, after so many years! No sooner canonized than made a doctor of the church. Excellent news.

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    1. Teresa Berger

      The German bishops had actually petitioned the Vatican to name Hildegard a “doctor ecclesiae” in the 1970s already, only to be told that that was impossible since Hildegard was not officially canonized (the rpocess having been botched in the 13th century). One of the then bishops in Germany, J. Ratzinger, took care of that little detail in May of 2012, as Pope Benedict XVI. 🙂

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  4. Earle Luscombe

    Wonderful news, Hildegard for a long time has been one of my favorite saints, and now this. Thanks be to God!

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