When Edith Stein entered the order of Discalced Carmelite nuns in 1933, she assumed the name of Teresa Blessed by the Cross. What did she mean by the seeming paradox of being “blessed by the cross”?
In front of a large white cross five meters high, erected more than fifty years ago on a small hill in a village in Normandy, thousands of people have prayed every day, and continue to do so even ...