The eldest of seven in a New Orleans family, Sister Anne began researching communications programs as a teenager, hoping to find a way to put faith and media together. The very first Daughter of St. Paul she met explained the Pauline mission as “putting the media at the service of the Church.” It was a revelation. That, along with the community’s Eucharistic spirituality, and a prayer by Blessed James Alberione (“Jesus…sanctify my mind and increase my faith”) led to her entering the congregation just four years after the Founder’s death.

Sister Anne’s first writing project, a booklet of rosary meditations in print for almost 20 years, enjoyed a vast distribution. She served as managing editor of a children’s magazine; co-author of catechetical texts; singer in the Daughters of St. Paul recording and concert choir; web page creator for the Vatican’s Jubilee Internet Office (2000). (She even sang for a papal Mass in St. Peter’s Square!) Her language skills allowed her to translate Mother of the Apostles, by fellow Pauline Father Giuseppe Forlai, IGS. Her “first love,” Jesus in the Eucharist, led her to write Come to Jesus (for children) and her most recent book, Come to Me: Living the Nine First Fridays, a Eucharistic devotional.

Now stationed in New Orleans, Sister Anne researches the charism and history of the Pauline Family and offers retreats inspired by the message of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.