The Holy See's "formal censure" of Farley's work and its statements related to her book, "Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics", brought Farley's work wider public attention than she had ever received, "causing it," according to "New York Times" columnist Maureen Dowd, "to shoot from obscurity to the top tier of Amazon.com's best-seller list". Dowd called the Vatican statement "the latest chapter in the Vatican's thuggish crusade to push American nuns—and all Catholic women—back into moldy subservience." Several news publications both in print and in media maintain that Farley was not writing a book on Catholic catechism, but an ecumenical discussion "distinguishing of practical and speculative questions from magisterial or official teaching."