None of the saints were 'saints' in the way we probably would like to think.  The 'saints' eked out their salvation despite and because of their faults.  For example:  Thomas Merton had an affair.  St. Teresa took monetary donations that she knew to be ill-gotten, and she turned her back on St. John of The Cross when he needed her most.  The Little Flower certainly seems to have been extremely neurotic.  While DD appears to have been not the best of mothers (few of us are), she didn't have an abortion, she did have Tamara baptized RC, and it doesn't appear that she was abusive towards Tamara and Kate.   I'm sure The CW houses were not heaven on earth -- they certainly aren't now either.  (I tried out two of them in separate states, and after a a couple of weeks, I couldn't wait to leave them -- the infighting was so bad, so blatant.)  And for all its worth, I hate 'tell all' books after the main person is deceased -- they are not here to defend themselves.  It's not at all fair.