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By M.C. Holbrook, Catholic Exchange - Edith Stein was born in 1891, the youngest of eleven children, at a time when the continent of Europe was on the cusp of entering two world wars. Many of us know her story: raised in the Jewish faith, Edith later converted to Catholicism after reading the autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila. She discerned a call to the religious life, and eventually became a Carmelite nun, taking the name, “Teresa Benedicta of the Cross.” St. Benedicta of the Cross died a martyr in 1942, when the Nazis ambushed her convent and sent her to the concentration camp in Auschwitz. She was killed in the gas chamber.

By Kathy Schiffer, National Catholic Register - Catholics believe that salvation is a gift from God, received through faith and baptism, and lived out through charity and good works... But members of many Protestant denominations have a different idea. They believe that you need only to believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved (that is, you will be welcomed into heaven). As evidence, our Protestant brothers and sisters rely on a few notable Scripture verses: In Acts 16:31, for example, Paul and Silas explain to the Philippian jailer, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”