Mary C. Sullivan, RSM, was a prolific writer about the life and mission of Catherine McAuley, the founder of the Sisters of Mercy. These writings continue to shape and inspire all who are called to the Mercy charism. Her writings also include a number of scholarly articles reflecting her literary studies—an MA and PhD in English from the University of Notre Dame with a doctoral dissertation on The Descriptive Style of Joseph Conrad. She would go on to earn an MA in Theology and continue to write in both the fields of literature and of theology and spirituality.
Catherine of Dublin. Pageant Press, 1965, a popular biography of Catherine McAuley, a nineteenth century Irish social worker and the founder of the Sisters of Mercy.
“The Function of Setting in Howell’s The Landlord at Lion’s Head,” American Literature, 1963.
“Moby Dick: Chapter CXXIX, ‘The Cabin,’” Nineteenth Century Fiction, 1965.
Co-author with Robert Golden. Flannery O’Connor and Caroline Gordon: A Reference Guide. G.K. Hall and Co., Boston, 1977.
“Conrad’s Paralipses in the Narration of Lord Jim,” Conradiana, Winter 1978.
“From Narrative to Proclamation: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Autobiography of Teresa of Avila,” Thought Quarterly. December 1983.
“Catherine McAuley’s Theological and Literary Debt to Alonso Rodriguez: The ‘Spirit of the Institute’ Parallels,” Recusant History: The Journal of the Catholic Record Society in the British Isles 20 (May 1990).
“Catherine McAuley’s Spiritual Reading and Prayers,” Irish Theological Quarterly 57:2 (Summer 1991).
“Comforting and Animating: The Generative Work of Catherine McAuley,” The MAST Journal 3:1 (Fall 1992).
“The Function of Setting in Howell’s The Landlord at Lion’s Head,” reprinted in On Howells: The Best from American Literature, ed. Edwin H. Cady and Louis J. Budd. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1993.
“The Spirit’s Fire and Catherine’s Passion,” The MAST Journal 5:2 (Spring 1995).
Catherine McAuley and the Tradition of Mercy. Four Courts Press, Dublin, and the University of Notre Dame Press, 1995; paperback edition, 2000.
“‘The Brazier that is My God’: Teresa of Avila on the Dispositions, Gifts, and Effects of True Prayer,” Review for Religious, July-August 1995.
“Catherine McAuley and the Care of the Sick,” The MAST Journal 6:2 (Spring 1996).
“Welcoming the Stranger: The Kenosis of Catherine McAuley,” Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Mercy Higher Education Colloquium (June 1996) and The MAST Journal 6:3 (Summer 1996).
“The Prophetic Life and Work of Catherine McAuley and the First Sisters of Mercy,” The MAST Journal 8:1 (Fall 1997).
Editorial Consultant, Morning and Evening Prayer of the Sisters of Mercy, and Praying with Catherine McAuley, compiled by the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas and published by Liturgy Training Publications (Chicago), 1998.
“The Prayers of Catherine McAuley,’’ The MAST Journal 8:3 (Summer 1998).
The Friendship of Florence Nightingale and Mary Clare Moore, an edition of fifty previously unpublished letters of Florence Nightingale to a close friend whom she met while nursing in the Crimean War. Clare Moore was the founding leader of the Sisters of Mercy, Bermondsey, London (1839). University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
“A Meditation on the Symbolic Utterance of Sisters of Mercy,” The MAST Journal I0:3 (Fall 2000).
The Correspondence of Catherine McAuley, 1818-1841. Four Courts Press, Dublin, and The Catholic University of America Press, 2004.
“Catherine McAuley and ‘Local Autonomy,’” Listen: Journal of the Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia 24.1 (2006): 7-10.
Bibliography of Books and Articles Published By or About the Sisters of Mercy. 1831-2005. Mercy International Research Commission, 2006. 120 pages.
Mercy International Research Conference (November 2007): “Catherine McAuley in the Nineteenth and Twenty-First Centuries.” Paper published in “Fire Cast on the Earth—Kindling”: Being Mercy in the Twenty-First Century, Proceedings of the Mercy International Research Conference, (2009).
The Practical Sayings of Catherine McAuley: a reprint edition of A Little Book of Practical Sayings, Advices, and Prayers of Mary Catharine [sic] McAuley, comp. Mary Clare Moore (London: Burns, Oates & Co., 1868, with a new Preface, Introduction, and Appendix. Lulu Press, 2010.
The Path of Mercy: The Life of Catherine McAuley. The Catholic University of America Press and Four Courts Press (Dublin), 2012.
A Shining Lamp: The Oral Instructions of Catherine McAuley. The Catholic University of America Press, 2017.
source : Curriculum Vitae of Mary Sullivan, RSM (May 2017)
via the Mercy Heritage Center of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas
