On Aug. 9 the Catholic Church celebrates the life of philosopher, writer, and religious sister St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, more commonly known as Edith Stein. Born in Breslau, Prussia (now ...

St. Edith Stein (1891-1942), also known by her religious ... feminine vocation and how to form students for heaven through a Catholic education. In the sixth essay of this volume, St. Edith ...

After learning more about St. Edith Stein, I believe that I didn’t choose her as the patron of the Harvard Catholic Women’s Group, but she chose the group herself. As a potential future doctor ...

I put the term ' martyrdom' in quotations, since Edith Stein was murdered by the Nazis for being Jewish and only, secondarily, ( and out of spite!) for being Catholic ... at St. Peter's church ...

a Jewish-born Catholic saint who died in Auschwitz during the Holocaust, the Algemeiner reported. Born Edith Stein on Yom Kippur 1891, the future saint grew up in a Jewish family, as detailed on ...