Edith Stein award for Synodalist nun

She is in line with the saint, who also rendered outstanding services as a fighter for the rights of women - inside and outside the church: Philippa Rath receives this year's Edith Stein Award.

Something distasteful about the implied comparison between the path followed by Edith Stein and the Synodal Path

Religious Sister Philippa Rath is the recipient of this year's Edith Stein Prize. This is in recognition of her commitment to the rights of women in the Catholic Church and in society, as the Göttingen Edith Stein Circle announced on Thursday. She had demonstrated this as a delegate in the Synodal Path as well as in two publications nationwide. The award is to be presented in Göttingen on November 26.

Rath's commitment is in line with Edith Stein, who also rendered outstanding services as a fighter for women's rights - inside and outside the church, the jury said. Stein, who converted from Judaism to Christianity and was murdered in a concentration camp in 1942, had written in an article about the diaconate and priesthood of women as early as 1928, she said: "Dogmatically, there seems to me to be nothing in the way that could forbid the church from carrying out such a hitherto unheard-of innovation."  (Cathcon: Actually, the quote taken out of context does not do justice to what Edith Stein thought. See here)

Almost 100 years later, the jury said, Sister Philippa Rath is working to make this "unheard-of innovation" a reality in the church. Born in Düsseldorf in 1955, Rath is a political scientist, theologian and historian who lives as a Benedictine nun at the Abbey of Saint Hildegard in Rüdesheim-Eibingen. - The Edith Stein Prize, which is awarded every two years and endowed with 5,000 euros, honors individuals, groups and institutions across national, denominational and religious borders who have distinguished themselves and proven themselves in an outstanding way by crossing borders in their social, political and societal commitment, according to the press release. 

Cathcon:  A political scientist would fit well into the Synodalist elite.  The path that the world takes...

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