Tim Townsend made a splash the other day with his story about Archbishop

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Carlson sending money to help fund the Maine fight against gay marriage. Townsend must have set a record for the comment board. As of this writing there are 153 comments and counting.

Most of the comments seem to be from outside our usual St. Louis Post-Dispatch Civil Religion readership, as JoeL mentioned in comment #145:

This first thing I noticed when reading though the comments to this story is that - like the archdiocese’s use of funds in this political campaign - comments don’t seem to be too local. Unless this hot-button issue fired up some local pro-gay marriage folks who don’t normally participate, it APPEARS the comments are coming from outside the typical STLToday readership. There aren’t too many familiar names, which is perfectly legitimate. The commentary on this blog has all the likings of hissy fit.

But I have a…

St. Louis Archbishop-elect Robert Carlson speaks at the press conference to announce his appointment last month. (AP Photo/Tom Gannam)

I’ll be traveling to Saginaw next week to talk to Archbishop-elect Robert Carlson, and we’re wondering what questions you’d ask him given the chance.

Pope Benedict XVI named Carlson the 10th bishop of St. Louis last month. His installation date has yet to be set, but will likely happen sometime in June.

Send us your questions by using Civil Religion’s comment feature, and I’ll take them with me to Michigan.