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Welcome to the Catholic feminist, a podcast for strong women who want to be informed,

inspired, and intentional. I'm your host, inspired, and intentional.

I'm your host, Claire, and I'm so glad you're here. Hey y'all, today we are going to be learning all about Sister Thea Bowman for our final saint spotlight.

It has been such a joy to have double the podcast content in March for Women's History Month

and to learn about the phenomenal Catholic women of the past.

Sister Thea Bowman is someone that I've been interested in for a really long time and

I have the good fortune to interview her dear friend, Eva Loomis all about her and what

sister Thea was like. I do have to let you know that we did our interview over the

phone instead of over Skype so the audio quality is a little less than I usually like to put out,

but I still think that you can take a lot away from the conversation. So without further do,

let's jump on in and learn more about Sister Thea.

And just one more teensy, tiny, tech issue.

The very first question of the interview is cut off.

So let's jump in knowing that I started by asking

Sister Eva how she met Sister Thea in the first place.

So I'm standing on a corner in the rain and then father Ed Braxton walks by and says,

why are you standing in the rain? I said, well I don't have a ticket to get into the good

control. He said, oh oh come come with me so we

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