Mother Angelica, who founded the Eternal Word Television Network, a globe-spanning Catholic television and radio empire, and who became known as the “zinging nun” as much for her blunt and peppery personality as her defiantly orthodox religious views, died on Easter Sunday at the monastery where she lived in Alabama. She was 92.
The death was announced by her cable network in Ironton, Ala., which she began in 1981. Until disabled by a stroke in 2001 and withdrawing from public life, Mother Angelica had hosted a TV show on the Eternal Word Television Network since she started the company.
Widely known as EWTN, the network began in a converted garage behind a Catholic monastery Mother Angelica built from scratch in the early 1960s. Now on air for 24 hours a day, EWTN broadcasts orthodox Catholic teaching through Bible studies, religious movies and documentaries, children’s shows, discussions, sermons and call-ins to 148 million homes in 144 countries.
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