A few years as superior at 91st Street followed her departure from Kenwood, and then she was named the mistress of probation at the motherhouse. It was the era of the Second Vatican Council. Mother Schroen’s theological and biblical study had prepared her to enter into the forward thinking of the theological experts at the council, several of whom she invited to speak to the probanists. She saw herself as preparing these young religious for a future that would be different from the present. Difficulties with the superior general and with some of the mothers vicar ensued. After only a year and a half, she was sent to the newly established college in Korea. Her service was followed by a year in Papua New Guinea working with an indigenous congregation of sisters.
In 1969, she returned to the United States. She was sixty years old.,, (To read more about Marie Louise's life, click on the link under her picture. See also: Woman of the Word: A Life of Marie Louise Schroen, Religious of the Sacred Heart, by Frances M. Gimber, RSCJ.)
