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SAINTHOOD FOR EDITH STEIN...
...early retirees are by no means all rich. Edith Flowers Kilgo, 52, of Jonesboro, Ga., is a former free-lance writer and a university-press editor at Georgia State University who retired in 1994 to share her special expertise: saving money. Kilgo is publisher of the bimonthly newsletter Creative Downscaling, in which she passes on ideas gleaned from her own life-style, including the best way to purchase used cars, plus tips on buying clothes (wait for end-of-season sales) and making your own snacks. "I grew up in poverty as the daughter of sharecroppers," says Kilgo, whose husband...
...occasional accolade. Some of the most common gripes: Two works by James Joyce in the top five? Is Ulysses really the greatest novel ever written, and has anyone ever read the whole thing? And why such a proliferation of white males? Only eight women make the list, with Edith Wharton lucky enough to score twice, for The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth. And Toni Morrison...shut...
...most people will continue to know her under a different name, which is a point of some significance. Prior to her martyrdom, Teresa's name was Edith Stein, and she was born Jewish. The consequences of that status led Jewish leaders last week to term the canonization "problematic," "offensive" and "an attempt to appropriate the Holocaust without coming to grips with it." They see it as part of a dissonant motif in Pope John Paul II's otherwise triumphant symphony of Catholic-Jewish brotherhood--a masterwork that is very much part of his grand plan for the church's millennial...
Pius' story can be seen as the macro to Edith Stein's micro. Devout and ascetic in life, long a favorite of the church's conservative branch, the wartime Pontiff has been sharply criticized both by Jewish leaders and church liberals for his refusal to publicly condemn the Nazis, a "silence" that some suggest may have cost untold Jewish lives. Pius' defenders reply heatedly that his efforts to hide Jews in Italy and elsewhere saved thousands. More important, they insist that silence was the best policy--and here Pius' story intersects Stein's. According to Gumpel, Pius was about...