Aug. 9 is the feast day of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, also known as Edith Stein. A convert from Judaism at the age of 30, she later entered the Carmelite order and died in the Nazi ...

In 1979, a friend of Edith Stein, Father Johannes Hirschmanns, S.J. wrote that although Auschwitz remained a place stripped of love, it also revealed that the Cross was stronger than hate.

Boston, Mass., Aug 9, 2023 / 02:00 am. When Edith Stein entered the order of Discalced Carmelite nuns in 1933, she assumed the name of Teresa Blessed by the Cross.

Stein was baptized on Jan. 1, 1922, at the age of 30. She took the name Teresa Benedicta of the Cross when she became a novice Carmelite nun 12 years later.

Edith Stein, a Jewish convert to Catholicism and a Holocaust victim, will be canonized Sunday — but not without controversy. Her promotion to sainthood is provoking Jewish criticism that Cath… ...

Services for Edith Stein, 88, a restaurant owner for more than 50 years, will be held at 11 a.m. Friday in the chapel at 5206 N. Broadway. Mrs. Stein, a North Side resident, died Thursday in Illino… ...

Edith Stein lived and prayed in Echt until August 2, 1942, when the ss interrupted evening prayer at the convent and arrested the Steins. On August 5, Edith was interned at Westerbork.

Edith Stein, also known as St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross was a German Jewish philosopher who converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Discalced Carmelite nun.

Edith Stein and his grandmother “were about the same age and came to a similar end,” he said. Cardinal Czerny also spoke about his grandmother in October 2019, ...

Edith Stein suggests a woman who knew who she was, in every sense, and was willing to pay the price for all parts of her identity. Are Christians today able to do the same, ...

For Stein and the nascent philosophy of phenomenology, as conceived by Husserl, the problem was particularly acute. Phenomenology posited that the proper field of study for philosophy was not whether ...