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 's he died in about 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