Why Edith Stein needed to be named a Doctor of the Church, "like yesterday"

Pardon me while I fangirl.

Several years ago, while navigating what was looking like a call to marriage and family life and the beginning of my professional work, I began to realize how incredibly tossed about in the wind I felt in everyday discussions about women in the Church. This slightly whiplashed feeling hasn’t necessarily gone away over the years, though I have slowly bee…