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

Welcome

Carole Garibaldi Rogers is a writer, editor, and independent oral historian.

She has published numerous articles in national newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times and America as well as six books.

Her book, Fasting: Exploring a Great Spiritual Practice, published by Sorin Books, was chosen as a September 2004 selection of the Spiritual Book Associates.

Poverty, Chastity and Change: Lives of Contemporary American Nuns,, a collection of 50 oral history interviews she conducted with women religious from around the country, was first published in hardcover in 1996 by Simon&Schuster Macmillan in the Twayne Oral History Series. It, too, was a book club selection. A paperback edition was published in 2001. Next year, 2011, Oxford University Press will publish a revised and updated second edition.

She has directed "Gifts from Our Past: Lives of Catholic Women in New Jersey," an oral history project at the College of Saint Elizabeth, and serves at the College on the Advisory Board of the Center for Catholic Women's History.

She and her husband live in Morristown, New Jersey where she is at work updating the collection of oral histories of women religious and also finishing another book, a creative nonfiction account of three New York City families during the early 20th century.
2001 paperback edition

Reviews


"a book about confidence and hope" The Washington Post

"a welcome contribution to the study of women's history and to the study of the contemporary U.S. Church" America

"a timely topic which will open up further questions and areas of research to its readers" The Oral History Review
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