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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

As perverse as this may sound, we sincerely hope the idiots who desecrated the statues at St. Edith Stein, a Catholic church in Brockton, were kids incapable of knowing the pain their terrorism caused ...

BROCKTON — For families transitioning from Cape Verde to the United States, a vastly different economy can be one of the biggest adjustments. And that's one of the main reasons the St. Vincent de Paul ...

The dignity and vocation of women and men were once again the focus of the fifth annual Edith Stein Project conference at the University of Notre Dame Feb. 12-13. The student- run conference has grown ...

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 ...