
Patrick’s latest book is Conscience and Calling: Ethical Reflections on Catholic Women’s Church Vocations (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013). Earlier works include Liberating Conscience: Feminist Explorations in Catholic Moral Theology (Continuum, 1997) and Women, Conscience, and the Creative Process (Paulist Press, 2011).
Dr. Patrick is a graduate of Medaille College in Buffalo, New York. She holds a master’s degree from the University of Maryland and a second master’s degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.


