| THE ROAD TO ROME By the early 1940s, Bob Hope was one of Hollywood’s most bankable stars and also one of its most generous. Hope gave his time to America’s soldiers — headlining 57 United Service Organization tours — and he magnanimously gave his money to the Catholic Church, from financing chapels to homeless ministries. Though a Presbyterian and infamous philanderer, Hope’s 69-year marriage to his devout Catholic wife, Dolores, was enough to save his soul in the end when he finally converted in the last 10 years of his life. READ |
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