Edith Stein was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland) in 1891. In a world full of challenges for women, Stein completed a PhD in Philosophy under Edmund Husserl ...

Father Pacwa notes that Edith had a romantic desire for a love like her mother and father, but she found it in Christ. A Jesuit priest fluent in 13 languages, Father Mitch Pacwa hosts several programs ...

The year was 1893, when a tragedy shook the foundations of Edith Stein’s family. Her mother, Auguste Stein, had given birth to 11 children, with four dying in infancy. When Edith, the youngest child, ...

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 ...

Cardinal Michael Czerny marked the 80th anniversary of the gas chamber killing of the Jewish-born Catholic convert Edith Stein on Tuesday Aug. 9, 2022, by celebrating a Mass at the former Auschwitz ...

Before the enclosed grille of the Discalced Carmelite Convent in Cologne, a distinguished German philosopher nervously submitted to a test of humility: she sang a ditty for the brown-robed nuns ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Joshua Sinclair will write, direct and produce 'A Rose in Winter.' By Rebecca Ford Joshua Sinclair, who helmed 2007’s Jump!, will write, direct and produce the biopic A Rose in Winter. The film will ...