Julie is a freelance writer and the author of Elizabeth Ann Seton: Saint for a New Nation (Paulist Press, 2001) and God Is Like.Three Parables for Children (Waterbrook Press, 2000). She has written for Our Daily Visitor and also authored a preschool catechism manual based on Montessori principles. Julie and her husband, Clem, have four children and eleven grandchildren. They live in South Bend, Indiana.