She also regularly bathed and served an alcoholic woman covered in sores.
The work of a Missionary of Charity is contemplation of Christ in the poor, the same Christ they adore and receive in the Eucharist that is the center of their life of prayer.
And in the context of the Catholic Church, charity can be viewed as a self-interested act.
Celeste Van Exem, who prayed over what she confided in him for two months before acting further.
The world will never know.
He conducted his home with discipline but also, and more importantly, with charity.
On the other hand, she had no qualms about accepting the Legion of Honour and a grant from the Duvalier dictatorship in Haiti.
She cuts off their telepathic dialogue.