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 ...

Edith Stein was born into an Orthodox ... In 1922 at the age of 30, Stein was baptized into the Catholic Church. Despite her Catholic faith, she never lost sight of her own Jewishness, nor of ...

The southwestern Polish city of Wrocław has paid tribute to Edith Stein, a Jew who converted to Catholicism, became a Carmelite nun and was declared a saint in 1998. Edith Stein House at ...

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 ...

Born into an Orthodox Jewish family in Germany in 1891, Edith Stein turned toward Christianity ... assistant director of the Institute for Jewish-Catholic Relations at St. Joseph’s University ...

On this day the Roman Catholic Church celebrates the feast of St. Teresa ... Rosa Stein, were among those sent to the gas chamber at Auschwitz, on August 9, 1942. "Edith Stein was arrested by ...