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Article: STIRRING A STORM.(canonization of Edith Stein)
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- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
- Article date:
- February 1, 1999
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"Her canonization has created a storm of controversy in the Jewish community, affecting the Catholic-Jewish dialogue." That at least is the claim of Abraham Foxman, national director, and Rabbi Leon Klenicki, director of interfaith affairs, of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). Certainly they are doing their best to stir a storm of controversy, although--to judge by the general media and the Jewish press--with limited success. Their press release attacking the canonization of Edith Stein (Sister Theresa Benedicta of the Cross) was issued almost simultaneously with the twentieth anniversary of this pontificate and the publication of ADL's full-page advertisement in the New ...
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Article: The Canonization of Edith Stein
The Washington Post;
October 21, 1998 ;
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... ... which questioned Pope John Paul II's "intentions" in declaring Edith Stein to be a Catholic saint ... Catholics to know about Edith Stein is that she died as one ... little to the discussion of Edith Stein's canonization. While ...
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