Whispers in the Loggia: At April's End, The Doctors Are InPALMO: As it has for some six centuries, this 29 April again marks the feast of one of the great saints of ecclesiastical renewal: Catherine of Siena – by turns as a nurse, mystic and Dominican tertiary - but a figure who remains most famous for her pen, with which she corresponded as adviser, and often scourge, of her day's hierarchs.
Even at a young age, Catherine sensed the troubled society around her and wanted to help. She dreamed of dressing up like a man to become a Dominican friar; more than once she ran into the street to kiss the ground where Dominicans walked...
