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Taking Edith Stein’s Jewishness seriously in her example to Catholics

Was Edith Stein a Jewish martyr? A Catholic martyr? Both? Neither? Read more…

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Festivity and Freedom: Josef Pieper and Joseph Ratzinger

Over the summer, after terrorists murdered Father Jacques, the Archbishop who celebrated the requiem Mass said in his homily: “The death of Jacques Hamel summons me to a frank ‘yes,’— no, not a tepid yes — a ‘yes’ to life, as the ‘yes’ of Jacques to his ordination. Is it possible?”

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My first week of classes this semester in Poland

The new semester is off to an excellent start. On Mondays, we have a three-hour class called Main Problems and Methods of Philosophy. The class is divided into three sections: First we are quizzed on the assigned reading with a question or two to which we give short responses to demonstrate what we understand and […]

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