Carole Garibaldi Rogers

Selected Works

Books
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
Articles

Oral History

Poverty, Chastity and Change contains 50 oral history interviews with American Catholic women religious. The book offers an inside look at how these women not only survived but actually embraced the changes that came to every aspect of their lives during the last forty years of the 20th century. The women speak honestly and eloquently about prayer, ministry, and personal relationships. The book received excellent reviews and was the main selection of a book club. Recommended for everyone interested in women's lives--and how to move into the future with grace and confidence. Original research was supported by the Lilly Endowment and the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.

A second edition of the collection will be published, under a new title, by Oxford University Press in 2011.

Gifts From Our Past is an ongoing oral history project at the College of Saint Elizabeth, which Mrs. Rogers directs. Begun in 1998 with the support of the College and the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth, the project seeks to collect the life stories of a wide variety of Catholic women in New Jersey--second and third generation Irish and Italian women; recent immigrant women; African-American women; and women from Eastern churches. All tapes and transcripts are preserved in the Archives at the College and are available to the public.

In 2001 the College established the Center for Catholic Women's History, which is committed not only to preserving the oral histories but also to working in partnership with students, faculty, scholars, and the general public. For more information, click on the link to the College of Saint Elizabeth, go to "Make a Selection" and scroll down to the Center for Catholic Women's History.

About Oral History


Oral history is, quite simply, a method of gathering and preserving historical information by recording interviews with women and men who have participated in past events or who can describe a way of life that is fading from view. Oral history does not replace history based on written records; it supplements and enhances other forms of history. The interviews can be used in many ways--in a biography, for example.

"It would be hard to imagine a more ideal candidate for an oral history biography than Dorothy Day, Catholic pacifist and advocate for the poor....Rosalie Riegle, in this new book, Dorothy Day: Portraits by Those Who Knew Her, [used]oral history interviews as her primary methodology.... Because of their vivid details and sense of immediacy, this book clearly illustrates the strength oral history brings to biography."

CGR book review in The Oral History Review Summer/​fall 2004.

For more information about oral history, visit the Oral History Association website at the link provided below.
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