{"id":35181,"date":"2018-08-09T08:39:56","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T12:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=35181"},"modified":"2018-08-10T08:49:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T12:49:40","slug":"st-teresa-benedicta-of-the-cross-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2018\/08\/st-teresa-benedicta-of-the-cross-3\/","title":{"rendered":"St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Edith-Stein.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-35182 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Edith-Stein-147x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"172\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Edith-Stein-147x300.jpg 147w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Edith-Stein-768x1568.jpg 768w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Edith-Stein-501x1024.jpg 501w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Edith-Stein.jpg 993w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 172px) 100vw, 172px\" \/><\/a>The Latin Church observes the liturgical memorial\u00a0of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, known in history and professionally as Edith Stein. A woman of great import for us today.<\/p>\n<p>Stein\u00a0was born a Jew and was killed at Auschwitz because she was a Jew.<\/p>\n<p>She was a brilliant philosopher, studying phenomenology with Husserl. One of her academic accomplishments was making a translation into German John Henry\u00a0Newman\u2019s works, which the young Ratzinger brothers read at seminary after the war. After studies and a period of teaching and research, Stein became\u00a0a Carmelite nun because she read the life of St. Teresa of Avila. Leaving Germany she\u00a0fled with her sisters to the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross died as a Christian Martyr because of retaliation against the Church in the Netherlands, which opposed Nazi racist attacks against Jews and other minorities. As one said, &#8220;She is a bridge between Jews and Christians and our faithful opposition to fascist racism then and now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ora pro nobis, on this your feast, St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Latin Church observes the liturgical memorial\u00a0of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, known in history and professionally as Edith Stein. A woman of great import for us today. Stein\u00a0was born a Jew and was killed at Auschwitz because she was a Jew. She was a brilliant philosopher, studying phenomenology with Husserl. One of her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2018\/08\/st-teresa-benedicta-of-the-cross-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">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":[1775,2160],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35181"}],"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=35181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35183,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35181\/revisions\/35183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}