[Maximilian]

Husserl's best student was St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross who converted from atheism to become a Carmelite nun and who died heroically in the Holocaust. Her writings contain a moving phenomenological investigation of the Incarnation and the meaning of the Cross.

Her writing also contains a lot of totally unacceptable material. I cannot understand how she could have been approved for canonization. Perhaps she retracted all her errors. Or perhaps her canonization was intended to be a vicarious "baptism" of Husserl.

[wideawake]

Her writing also contains a lot of totally unacceptable material.

She was not a Catholic her whole life and when she became one she was just learning. Nothing in her convent writings appears "totally unacceptable" to me.

I cannot understand how she could have been approved for canonization.

I believe you.

Perhaps she retracted all her errors.

Or perhaps her "errors" weren't errors at all, or perhaps the original German did not convey the sense you extracted from the translation.

Or perhaps her canonization was intended to be a vicarious "baptism" of Husserl.

Or perhaps you're grasping at straws.

Here is a person who gave her life in conformity to the suffering of Christ, endured horrors we can't imagine with an unshaken devotion to Jesus, and you think it was all a conspiracy to to "baptize" Husserl.

You disappoint me.