By Joannie Watson, Integrated Catholic Life - I’m working on a book about Catherine of Siena right now, and it has given me a great appreciation for the Church. Catherine loved the Church, despite living during a tumultous time for the Bride of Christ. Just one of the many issues Catherine had to deal with would be enough to send most of us over the edge. Whenever people say that we’re living in “unprecedented times,” or lament corruption and sin in the Church as if it is something new, I want to show them even just a page of Church history.