I have some interesting connections through Mrs Vache Folle. Her stepfather (who adopted her and her brother, their father having died some years earlier) had an uncle Joe who was a Catholic priest. He didn’t invent bingo, but he was responsible for bringing bingo and Catholicism together: (http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/news/special_packages/look_back/15050983.htm). And he inspired the creation of many more bingo cards than the game once boasted.
Did bingo save the Catholic Church from financial ruin? Only history will tell. In any event it will all come out in Father Joe’s sainthood proceedings.
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