The Italian mystic St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) was a woman of intense prayer and close union with God. She was also active in political affairs and influenced the return of the papacy from Avignon to Rome. The twenty-third child of the Benincasa...

CATHERINE OF SIENA (1347–1380), Caterina da Siena; Italian mystic and Christian saint. The particular genius of the spirituality of Catherine of Siena had its earliest beginnings in a visionary experience of Christ when she was six years old,...

Saint Catherine of Siena, O.P. (March 25, 1347 - April 29, 1380) was a Tertiary (a lay affiliate) of the Dominican Order, and a scholastic philosopher and theologian. She was born into a prosperous urban family, her parents being Giacomo di Benincasa, a...

A priest has been arrested on charges of stalking late-night talk show host Conan O'Brien by writing him threatening notes on parish letterhead, contacting his parents and showing up at his studio, prosecutors said Wednesday.The Rev. David Ajemian, a priest in the Archdiocese of Boston,...

In the following essay, Scott concentrates on Catherine of Siena's Epistolario (her letters) as "examples of female activism," arguing that Catherine used her letters as a means of furthering both her religious and political causes.

In the excerpt that follows, Gardner places Catherine of Siena's literary work within the context of Christian mysticism as well as within more mainstream theology.

In the excerpt that follows, Wolfskeel discusses Il Dialogo and the Orazioni, both of which express Catherine of Siena's unique understanding of her relationship with the divine.

One of the greatest women that ever lived was St. Catherine of Siena. She was the youngest child in a large family. At six years of age, she received a vision in which Jesus appeared to her and blessed her.