COMMENTARY: At her canonization in 1998, Pope St. John Paul II described her as ‘a martyr for love, who gave her life for her ...

On Aug. 9 the Catholic Church remembers St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, also known as Edith Stein. St. Teresa converted from Judaism to Catholicism in the course of her work as a philosopher and ...

Father Pacwa notes that Edith had a romantic desire for a love like her mother and father, but she found it in Christ.