She received her Master’s in Theology at Andover-Newton School of Theology, and has studied with the Jesuits at Weston School of Theology. Following these studies, she completed coursework for her Licentiate in Sacred Theologyan equivalent to the Master’s in Divinityat the Marian Research Institute in Dayton, Ohio, and is now conducting research while serving as an editor for Religion News for the Lowell Sun in Lowell, Massachusetts, and a free-lance religious news correspondent for the Catholic World report.