![]() ![]() ![]() “Alabama Governor Robert Bentley was among those to pay tribute. It also operates radio stations and newspapers. Her health had been declining since she suffered a stroke in 2001. It has 11 channels reaching more than 250 million homes in 145 countries. The BBC reports: “EWTN claims to be the world’s biggest religious media network. The Catholic News Agency reports that “she launched EWTN after refusing to continue broadcasting from a secular TV station that she said was also broadcasting blasphemous films.” In 1962 she founded a monastery (Poor Clare nuns – a Franciscan religious order for women) in Irondale, near Birmingham, Alabama, USA. In 1981 she founded the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN), a Catholic cable channel, in her monastery garage. She was born in Ohio and became a nun in Cleveland aged 21. “Mother Angelica was an unapologetic and aggressive champion of Catholic orthodoxy, one of the leading exponents of what historians will no doubt see as a powerful conservative wave that rolled through American Catholicism in the 1980s and 90s…she will be sorely missed – the Church just isn’t as much fun without her around to stir the waters, raise our blood pressure, get us to think, and remind us to pray.” Journalist John L Allen Jr rightly said that: “Rita Antoinette Rizzo, Mother Angelica’s given name, was many things: A lightning rod, a force of nature, an impresario, an entertainer, a deft commentator…and, beneath it all, a faithful and pious nun… she was far from being everyone’s cup of tea. Mother Angelica died on Easter Sunday, March 27 (1923-2016) at age 92. “God wants you to be in the world, but so different from the world that you will change it. By Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ and Director, CREDI
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