Catherine of Siena was a genuinely holy woman. Her voice was heard where few women's voices would have gained an audience in the fourteenth century. Because she was the first woman to write and be published in the emerging Italian dialects, she provides an early feminine perspective on and interpretation of the events, culture, and spirituality of her era - like ours an era of crisis and transition for Church and Society. This is the woman whose vision and voice this book evokes in view of feeding our own twentieth-century insight and speaking. The essays in Part One study aspects of Catherine's vision in her theology and spirituality. Part Two offers resources for further exploration of Catherine's person and thought, of her world, and of what others have written of her in English.