St. Edith Stein (1891-1942), also known by her religious name as St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, is known for many things, such as her conversion to Catholicism from atheism after being raised in a ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...