Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

Pontifical academy tweets confusion, St. Edith Stein, and a ‘Body of Christ’ party…

If you’re like me, it’s likely you don’t know much about Edith Stein – the Catholic convert, Carmelite nun, and martyr who died 80 years ago today in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. She died as Sr. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. She was a Catholic nun, but she was also Jewish, and the Church has recognized that she died “a daughter of Israel…