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He then angered many Jews by pushing for the canonization of Edith Stein, a woman murdered at Auschwitz for being a Jew, but whom some Catholics want to transform into a "Christian martyr."

I was humming right along with this one until the author got caught up in this one. Edith Stein was of Jewish ethnicity, but she was, in fact, a Carmelite Nun.

Millions of Catholics died in the Holocaust too. Accepting this fact does not diminish our outrage at the special targeting the Jews endured.

Saint Edith Stein

[Mr. Silverback]

Yes, I did not understand at all the controversy over Stein.

First, I think the Catholic church has far less to be ashamed of during the Holocaust than most people think, especially considering how many of them were killed in the camps, so there was no need to use Stein to "reform" Catholicism in regards to the Holocaust.

Second, because I didin't understand why anyone thought of Stein as less of a Christian than a Jew. This was not a woman who had gone to Mass a couple of times or converted to marry a Catholic, this was a woman who had vowed to devote her life to Christ. To diminish her as a Christian to some kind of token is just nasty.