A nun and educator, her Pulitzer prize-nominated book was made into an acclaimed movie starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn. Her straightforward delivery and earnest truth actually made it worth squinting to watch a screen smaller than a business card for all 77 minutes of this 2002 speech. (Drag the horizontal slider on your media player to skip the first 5 minutes of introduction.)

This site is very friendly to dial-up viewers, with links for 28K and 56K dial-up access, as well as High Speed. I’m sorry to report that most of the media on this site either were missing, wouldn’t play, or had inaudible audio; curiously, the older entries in the archive played fine — it was the most recent additions that had problems.