Catherine McAuley and the Tradition of Mercy

Mary C. Sullivan, R.S.M., is a member of the Rochester, New York regional community of the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas. She is also professor emerita of language and literature, and dean emerita of the College of Liberal Arts, at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

"The most attractive aspect of this work is its fidelity to the unfolding of a religious movement from a single charismatic figure to the flowering of a world-wide mission of Mercy." —Irish Theological Quarterly"Mary Sullivan has made accessible to the historian of nineteenth-century women's history, and indeed the general reader with a special interest in Catherine McAuley, a rich mine of documentary material. And most significantly, her work on the development of Constitutions of the Sisters of Mercy is an important seminal contribution to the study of Catherine McAuley, the Sisters of Mercy, and the development of religious life at that time ..." —Journal of Religious History