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 Theologyan equivalent to the Master’s in Divinityat 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.