I had the pleasure about four years ago to see an opera based on Edith Stein's life, ... Pope Leo issues a strong warning against modern weapons of war. Gerard O’Connell. 3.

Prepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism by Steven Watson, Random House, $35, 371pp. Context, as they say, is everything. And Steven Watson&#82… ...