Well, thanks for the link. Stein's story was a terrible tragedy among millions of terrible tragedies. One thing I had forgotten was that she was thought of by some as a "feminist" scholar. I'm curious to know more about that, since what I've read of her views on women was lockstep with the magisterium.

The fact remains that Stein wasn't executed for professing her Catholic faith but for being a JEWISH convert to Catholicism. She was arrested because she was JEWISH. In terms of being a Catholic, hundreds, if not thousands, of Catholic clergy perished in Nazi concentration camps. What distinguishes Edith Stein from any one of them?