topic of her third book, People of God: The Struggle for World Catholicism, published in 1989 after years of research in Latin America and the United States. Unlike most of John Paul II's critics, Lernoux described his attempt to fortify an authoritarian model of the church as an effort to restore preconciliar (e.g. pre-Vatican II) Roman Catholicism. The book documented the church's dismissal of scholars who questioned John Paul II's papacy. It also dissected various groups struggling for control of the church and examined the popularity of Opus Dei, Communion and Liberation, the Knights of Malta and Tradition, Family and Property. Death After the publication of People of God, Lernoux left Bogotá to work on a fourth book. This one focused on the Maryknoll Sisters. Later that year she was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. Lernoux died on October 9, 1989, aged 49, a month after being hospitalized, leaving behind her husband Denis Nahum and their daughter Angela. Her husband, Denis Nahum, was born to a British Jewish family in the United Kingdom. They married in Miami, Florida. Denis died in 1997 in a traffic incident in Bogotá, Colombia, while their daughter Angela was driving. Her book was finished by Arthur Jones and Robert Ellsberg, and published in 1993 as Hearts on Fire: The Story of the Maryknoll Sisters. Legacy The Penny Lernoux Papers are held by the Marquette University Special Collections and University Archives. Lernoux was memorialized by the Penny Lernoux Memorial Library in Minneapolis until its parent organization closed in August 2007. Selected works Books In Banks We Trust—Bankers and Their Close Associates: The CIA, the Mafia, Drug Traders, Dictators, Politicians, and the Vatican. New York: Anchor Press (1984). . . Cry of the People: United States Involvement in the Rise of Fascism, Torture, and Murder and the Persecution of the Catholic Church in Latin America. Garden City, New York: Anchor Press / Doubleday (1980). . Republished (1982). New York: Penguin Books. , with new preface and subtitle: The Struggle for Human Rights in Latin America—The Catholic Church in Conflict with U.S. Policy. Republished (1991). New York: Penguin Books, with a new afterword by George Black. Articles "Illusions of Agrarian Reform." The Nation (Oct. 15, 1973). "Fascism in Brazil." Inquiry (Nov. 27, 1978), pp. 12–16. "The Latin American Church." Latin American Research Review, vol. 15, no. 2 (1980), pp. 201–211. Latin American Studies Association. . "Grassroots Churches Unite