You left me a note a couple days ago about whether I thought Abp Burk would be named a Cardinal I don t really know but I doubt it St Louis is one of those diocese Baltimore is the other that comes to mind that sometimes has a Cardinal but not always We have not had one as Abp since Cardinal Carberry retired in the early 1980 s he died in about 1998 I think as the church becomes less a European and North American church we will see fewer cardinals from small and mid sized diocese like STL and more from Africa Asia and South America I also think the controversies over things like St Stans make it less likely thatBurke would get picked for a red hat