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...overtures to Jews. His 1979 journey to Auschwitz was the first by a Pontiff to a concentration camp. His visit last year to a Rome synagogue made him the first known Pope to enter a Jewish house of worship since St. Peter. But last May he beatified a nun, Edith Stein, a convert from Judaism, as a heroic Christian martyr. Jews had protested that Stein was gassed at Auschwitz not for her faith but for her ancestry. John Paul has also defended the actions of the German bishops under the Nazis, despite accusations that some were less than aggressive...
Another remarkable record of consistency has been notched by Edith Pargeter, a prolific British writer and translator (of Czech poetry, among other pursuits). Under the nom de crime Ellis Peters she has produced The Rose Rent (Morrow; 190 pages; $15.95), her 13th highly evocative novel about Brother Cadfael, a 12th century monk in the abbey town of Shrewsbury. Like his 20th century soulmate, Father Brown of the G.K. Chesterton stories, Cadfael attractively suggests that the highest act of faith is the use of reason. Robert Barnard, whose mordantly funny one-off mysteries are as good as any currently being produced...
...alumni from the Class of 1962 will participate in a variety of symposia on topics ranging from "American Leadership and Foreign Competition in the World Economy," moderated by A. Michael Spence, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, to "Nurturing the Whole Self," moderated by Edith Humphreys...
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...immaterial whether you agree with Edith Stein's conversion to Christianity. There is no doubt that she was sent to her death because she was Jewish. This fact alone justifies the Pope's monument to her and to all those killed by the Nazis. As the son of a converted Jew who was persecuted by the Nazis, I am grateful to the Pope for his sensitivity...