Imagine, if you will, a gathering of bright young girls at Boston’s Emmanuel College, a prestigious Catholic women’s college run by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur. It is 1947, and they are about to hear a lecture by a glamorous new convert to the Catholic Church: playwright, politician, journalist, socialite and wit Clare Boothe Luce – wife of Time Life owner-publisher Henry Luce. Mrs Luce had been brought into the Church the year before by a man who was himself a rising star in the Catholic world, Mgr Fulton Sheen, and her arrival was keenly awaited by the ladies of Emmanuel.
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The feminist heroine whose brilliant mind brought her into the Church
imagine, if you will, a gathering of bright young girls at boston’s emmanuel college, a prestigious catholic women’s college run by the sist...
Charles Coulombe
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