Free Range Girl Catherine of Siena

Catherine of Siena

New Testament

a Benedictine oblate - a person vowed to live according to the fourth-century Rule - reconciles the conflict between the world's call and Benedict's more gentle admonition as she examines the twelve rungs on Benedict's ladder against the backdrop of the liturgical year

” deals with the terrible obstacles (self-created or inflicted from outside)

from seminary to Christian education to last rites

Free Range Girl Catherine of SienaA poignant and affectionate memoir about a time when being young, free, and largely unsupervised was the norm, before the digital age ushered in a world of algorithms and overparenting. Set in 1976, the bicentennial year, Free Range Girl chronicles the year 12 year old Meghan spent on a homestead in rural Maine with her father, who built the house by hand. A proponent of the idealistic back to the land movement of the 60s and 70s, Meghans father hoped