TY - BOOK AU - Hilkert,Mary Catherine TI - Speaking with authority: Catherine of Siena and the voices of women today SN - 9780809145867 PY - 2008/// CY - New York PB - Paulist Press KW - Catharina Senensis, KW - Donna KW - Aspetti cristiani KW - sbaa N1 - Include bibliografia: p. 123-137; 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 ER -