Religion: Nuns in Mufti

"That is what I have always wanted in Chicago," the late, great Cardinal Mundelein cried when he heard about the Ladies of the Grail—a new Roman Catholic religious order whose members wear modern women's clothes and devote their lives of chastity, poverty and obedience primarily to social service among working girls. So last week the Ladies of the Grail began training their first group of U.S. aspirants on a great estate near Chicago given them by Cardinal Mundelein's energetic, liberal-minded right hand, Auxiliary Bishop Bernard James Sheil.

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