
Is Edith Stein a Doctor of the Church? No, But She Could Be One Soon
If St. Teresa Benedicta is named a doctor of the Church, she would join 37 other saints with that title, four of whom are women:
If St. Teresa Benedicta is named a doctor of the Church, she would join 37 other saints with that title, four of whom are women:
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If accepted, Stein, also known by her religious name St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, could become the fifth woman to be declared a doctor of the Church.
Ultimately, she placed her hope not in human reason, which she well knew was fallible, but in God’s eternal reason and his promises.
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St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, in her philosophical essays, showed that women are endowed with wonderful, God-given natures.
‘St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross says to us all: Do not accept anything as the truth if it lacks love,’ said Pope St. John Paul II. ‘And do not accept anything as love that lacks truth.’
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Like the saints before and after her, Sister Teresa Benedicta enkindled a deep love for Jesus in the Eucharist and had a beautiful heart.
Edith Stein’s search for truth led to sainthood.
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