To help celebrate the fourth centenary of the birth of St. John of the Cross in 1542, Edith Stein received the task of preparing a study of his writings. She us

"With reason Edith Stein has been called 'the most significant German woman of this century'. Her writings on woman are the fruit of both reflection and debate

On the same summer day in 1942, Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) and hundreds of other Catholic Jews were arrested in Holland by the occupying

Regarded today as a Catholic martyr, Edith Stein was a convert from Judaism who became a nun, yet was nonetheless deported by the Nazis to her death in Auschwit

The sixteen essays in this collection critically examine the legacy of Edith Stein, a Catholic convert of Jewish heritage who was murdered at Auschwitz, and are