This year marks the 100th anniversary of Edith Stein’s baptism in the Catholic Church. The city where the philosopher turned saint was born has launched a Year of Edith Stein to celebrate the life and ...

On August 9 every year, the church celebrates the ‘ martyrdom’ of the Carmelite Sister Teresia Benedicta of the Cross ( Edith Stein) who was gassed at Auschwitz that day, seventy years ago. I put the ...

As Pope Francis calls believers to the peripheries, he has stressed that such places of obscurity are not only geographical locations. While the pope avoids any misplaced hyper-spiritualization of the ...

BROCKTON – Towering over East Main Street, St. Edith Stein Church serves as a reminder that sometimes miracles really happen. Founded as St. Edward’s Church in 1915, the parish celebrated its 100th ...

Toward the close of his masterpiece Being and Time (1927), the great German philosopher Martin Heidegger raised a question that would become fertile ground for science fiction. Why does time only run ...

The Holocaust Museum at Auschwitz includes exhibitions documenting the Shoah in various countries. In the Dutch pavilion there is searchable computer database for those murdered at Auschwitz by the ...

After a month-long vacation that was interrupted by his trip to Australia for World Youth Day, Pope Benedict XVI resumed his general audiences Aug. 13. He met with a group of pilgrims and local ...

Joey Nolfi is a senior writer at Entertainment Weekly. Since 2016, his work at EW includes RuPaul's Drag Race video interviews, Oscars predictions, and more. At the age of 87, following a nearly ...

On this day the Roman Catholic Church celebrates the feast of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, a Discalced Carmelite. She and her sister, Rosa Stein, were among those sent to the gas chamber at ...

My mother was a master at the art of friendship. I learned so much from watching her be completely present, intertwined and fully engaged with her friends. She even went so far as to take on the ...

My mother was a master at the art of friendship. I learned so much from watching her be completely present, intertwined and fully engaged with her friends. She even went so far as to take on the ...