“The …   public opinion … in this country, does not appreciate contemplative life and does not understand the efficacy of prayer. You and I will probably be looked upon as lunatics by the world at large and perhaps even by a certain number Christians, but we shall remember that it is the sublime folly of the Cross which conquered the false and diabolical wisdom of the World.”
                            - Archbishop Napoleon Perché, the bishop who invited Mother        
                                    Maddalena to found a Poor Clare monastery in New Orleans