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 ...

Recently I wrote an essay on an unusual film about an unusual saint: Edith Stein: The Seventh Chamber, newly available on DVD from Ignatius Press. The project required me to watch the film a number of ...

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 ...

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 ...

EDITH STEIN was born to a Jewish family, but she became an atheist and later converted to the Roman Catholic Church and became a Discalced Carmelite nun. She is a martyr and saint of the Catholic ...

The southwestern Polish city of Wrocław has paid tribute to Edith Stein, a Jew who converted to Catholicism, became a Carmelite nun and was declared a saint in 1998. Edith Stein House at 38 ...

The Saint of the Day for Friday, August 9 is Edith Stein, religiously known as Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. The German nun of Jewish origin converted to Catholicism after a period of atheism that ...