{"id":33727,"date":"2016-08-09T09:54:02","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T13:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=33727"},"modified":"2016-08-03T10:11:19","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T14:11:19","slug":"st-teresa-benedicta-of-the-cross-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2016\/08\/st-teresa-benedicta-of-the-cross-2\/","title":{"rendered":"St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"edith<\/a>Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (in history she is known as Edith Stein). The Church honors her with the title of \u00a0Virgin and Martyr<\/em> due to her vocation as a nun and one killed for belief in Christian faith.<\/p>\n

Stein was\u00a0born on October 12, 1891, in Breslau, Poland. Her family was Jewish. By 1922, after reading the saints, in particular, Saint Teresa of Avila,\u00a0and on matters in the Catholic faith, she was baptized at the Cologne Cathedral. Eleven\u00a0years later she entered the Carmelite Order in Cologne before being sent to the Carmel in Echt, Holland. With her sister Rose, Teresa was arrested and sent to the concentration camp at Auschwitz. There she\u00a0died in the gas chambers of Auschwitz in 1942 at the age of fifty-one.\u00a0Stein\u00a0was beatified in 1987 and canonized on October 11, 1998.<\/p>\n

It is said that she made a claim about Husserl that\u00a0“Whoever seeks truth seeks God, whether he knows it or not.” Professor Husserl was not one to speak about his religious faith because he wanted to maintain a separation between faith and reason. Yet, we know from experience, that faith and reason go hand-in-hand. Catholics ought to take a lesson here: a person who claims Christian faith faith can not be diffident reading the same.\u00a0One can say with a degree of certainty that\u00a0Stein’s philosophical research was one of a constant quest for God.\u00a0Saint Teresa Benedicta’s witness is that\u00a0whoever seeks truth through philosophy seeks God, because God is Truth. We therefore hold that that whoever seeks truth is, in fact, seeking God. There is a primacy of faith and reason in the Catholic mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (in history she is known as Edith Stein). The Church honors her with the title of \u00a0Virgin and Martyr due to her vocation as a nun and one killed for belief in Christian faith. Stein was\u00a0born on October 12, 1891, in Breslau, Poland. Her family was Jewish. By 1922, … Continue reading St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[1775,2159,1749,2160],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33729,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33727\/revisions\/33729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}