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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Edith Karel Stein, nee Leifer, age 95, beloved wife of the late Herman Karel and Morton Stein; loving mother of Arthur (Donna) Karel and the late Linda Chizever Kornhauser Mueller; fond grandmother of ...

Edith Stein (1891-1942) had been born Jewish in Breslau (now Wroclaw in Poland). She studied philosophy in her native town before joining Göttingen University. In Freiburg, she worked with Professor ...

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 ...