Title: Speaking with authority : Catherine of Siena and the voices of women today /
Authors: Hilkert, Mary Catherine.
Publisher: Paulist Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Catherine,; Women in the Catholic Church.; Authority Religious aspects Catholic Church.
Contents: Foreword / Suzanne Noffke -- Introduction -- Unholy silence and wise speech in our day -- The voices of women today -- Women's "proper place" in the church and the example of Catherine -- The witness and wisdom of Catherine of Siena -- The authority of vocation -- Catherine of Siena in her context -- The question of women's preaching in Catherine's era -- Catherine's sense of vocation -- Vocation and gender- then and now -- Baptism, charisms, and vocation -- The authority of wisdom : speaking the truth in love -- Catherine as doctor of wisdom and the recovery of Sophia -- The charism of wisdom : speaking the truth in love -- Seeking wisdom together : the need for many voices -- Discerning the truth -- The authority of compassion -- Catherine's exhortations to embrace the cross -- Catherine's metaphors for redemption -- Can women claim the cross today? -- Voices of passion and resistance -- Negative contrast experience and the politics of compassion -- Birth of hope and courage in the darkness -- Conclusion -- Notes.