"I would like to nominate [for the title of Doctor of the Church] women of the twentieth century who have not even been declared saints: such as Adrienne von Speyr, who accepted with simplicity and profound humility her role as a mystic and at the same time a doctor, wife, woman of her time, and who wrote beautiful texts that are now almost forgotten."
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From an interview of Laura Badaracchi, Scaraffia: la Chiesa dia più voce alle donne, Avvenire.it, 1 November 2014
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