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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

They gave her 10 minutes to gather her things and say goodbye. The bishops of the Netherlands had recently denounced Nazi deportations of Jews and Dutch citizens. The Nazis retaliated by arresting 245 ...

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 ...

In 1998 Edith Stein 18911942 was canonised by Pope John Paul II A German philosopher of Jewish descent Stein converted to Catholicism in 1922 and lived as nun in the Carmelite Convent of Echt in the ...

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 ...