Mother Angelica, founder of Catholic TV and radio empire, dies at 92

[ChrisSmolinski]

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.

Full article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/mother-angelica-founder-of-catholic-tv-and-radio-empire-dies-at-92/2016/03/27/6d61ee2e-f497-11e5-9804-537defcc3cf6_story.html

[Pigmeat]

I always referred to her as the "Iron Nun".

I had a car engine go to it's reward not too far from her place in the summer of '94. I spent the night in a  motel full of her followers heading off to a nearby shrine in N. Alabama. It was the evening O.J. and his buddy Al went on their Bronco ride around L.A. Fellini couldn't have cast a better crowd than the one in the Waffle House the next morning. Little blue haired ladies and nuns perplexed over how that nice Simpson man could do such a thing.