Saturday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time: August 9 (Fr. Kevin MacDonald, C.Ss.R.)
We live in a time when many people believe that the existence of God is unknowable, that human reason is incapable of knowing whether God exists or that God does not exist. This is not something new. Edith Stein, the towering intellectual saint and martyr the Church honors today, lost her faith in God during her teenage years, despite being brought up in a devout Jewish home. She was the youngest of eleven children. Her widowed mother encouraged all her children to think critically and encouraged them in their studies. Edith’s studies were interrupted by World War I. She became a volunteer…
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