Selected Works

Books
Fasting--Exploring a Great Spiritual Practice
Sorin Books, September, 2004
Poverty, Chastity and Change: Lives of Contemporary American Nuns
Twayne/Simon&Shuster Macmillan, 1996; paperback, 2001
Great Ideas from Great Parishes
A handbook for Catholic parishes, compiled with Mary Ann Jeselson and the RENEW International team. Liguori, 2003
The People's Prayer Book
A collection of prayers from RENEW International, edited with Mary Ann Jeselson.Liguori, 2003
Sampling of Articles
Remembering First Communion
Why Catholics Fast: Searching for the Tradition
Overlooked Narrators: What Women Religious Can Contribute to Feminist Oral History
Mothers, Daughters and Women Religious
Hikers'Idyll Nestled in the Dolomites
Requiem for a Clown

Poverty, Chastity and Change: Lives of Contemporary American Nuns

A collection drawn from 94 oral history interviews the author conducted with women religious across the country.

"This work makes a valuable contribution to many disciplines in that it makes visible the lives and accomplishments of hundreds of thousands of American women who are only now emerging as a topic of serious scholarship."
Florence Deacon, Oral History Review, Winter/​Spring 1999


"Each woman met in the pages of this book manifests an astonishing degree of self-awareness along with an ability to articulate it."
Mary Jeremy Daigler, , March 3, 1997