“A sophisticated scholarly reconstruction of McAuley’s oral instructions to the early Sisters of Mercy. This book contributes to the cumulative work of recovering something like the “historical Catherine McAuley.” A serious contribution to women’s history and the history of spirituality.” —William Portier, author of Divided Friends: Portraits of the Roman Catholic Modernist Crisis in the United States (CUA Press)
“A sophisticated scholarly reconstruction of McAuley’s oral instructions to the early Sisters of Mercy. This book contributes to the cumulative work of recovering something like the “historical Catherine McAuley.” A serious contribution to women’s history and the history of spirituality.” —William Portier, author of Divided Friends: Portraits of the Roman Catholic Modernist Crisis in the United States (CUA Press)
Mary C. Sullivan is the author of The Path of Mercy: The Life of Catherine McAuley and the editor of The Correspondence of Catherine McAuley (both CUA Press)