At present, Archbishop Carlson is supportive of this initiative begun by soon to be Cardinal Burke. Archbishop Carlson is one of the most intelligent and canny Bishops in the Church today. Some of us thought at one point that all the lights were burnt out in the Vatican and that it was full of venal and shortsighted political creatures, but we're beginning to see that things are beginning to turn around.
BY GREG JONSSON gjonsson@post-dispatch.com 314-340-8253
04/04/2010
Sister Marie of the Love of God inherited a fixer-upper.
The young nun was sent from Italy to St. Louis in September to turn an old convent building at St. Francis de Sales into the American home of her small order, the Adorers of the Royal Heart of Jesus Christ Sovereign Priest.
She found herself in a sprawling old building with a warren of rooms on each of three floors, most of it not fit for human habitation. The challenges it presented would be familiar to anyone who's rehabbed a historic home in the city: an outdated electrical system, ancient pipes, clanking old radiators, linoleum glued down over beautiful wood floors.
"People ask me if I need help," said Sister Marie, 31, originally from Paris. "I tell them yes, for 20 years."
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