Mother Angelica, Founder of Catholic Network EWTN, Dies at 92
Source: NBC News
Mother Mary Angelica of the Annunciation, founder of the Catholic TV powerhouse EWTN, died Sunday at age 92, the network confirmed Sunday night.
She succumbed about 5 p.m. (6 p.m. ET) in Hanceville, Alabama, to the aftereffects of a stroke she suffered many years ago, according to the network's Catholic News Agency.
Mother Angelica born Rita Antoinette Rizzo in Canton, Ohio, in 1923 began what would become the Eternal Word Television Network in Irondale, Alabama, in 1981 with $200 and 12 nuns and little television experience.
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EWTN said an invitation-only Mass of Christian Burial was scheduled for 11 a.m. (noon ET) Friday at the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Hanceville, Alabama, where Mother Angelica founded Our Lady of the Angels Monastery in 1999.
Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mother-angelica-founder-catholic-network-ewtn-dies-92-n546376
This was posted in the Catholic forum, but I thought it was a big enough story to post in Late Breaking News.
I had know about EWTN for years, but I had not known that Mother Angelica founded the network.
I think the funeral should be open to the public.
Ex Lurker
(3,808 posts)Had no idea she was still alive.
Until tonight I thought she had died years ago.
BumRushDaShow
(127,300 posts)Must have been someone else who passed that made the news.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Gomez163
(2,039 posts)She was a nice woman.
Archae
(46,261 posts)She founded her network when she objected to a movie being broadcast.
And she demanded that "The Last Temptation Of Christ," the copies of the movie, negative, everything be destroyed.
Like I said after seeing part of it myself, ( I fell asleep watching the video,) if she and all those fundy would-be censors had just left it alone, it would have died on it's own. That's how shitty it was.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)Great! Founded on censorship! Well, what is one to expect?
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Archae
(46,261 posts)Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)according to you.
Archae
(46,261 posts)She founded her network because another network aired a movie *SHE* didn't like.
She fought like hell to censor "The Last Temptation Of Christ."
She got her first "big break" thanks to Pat Robertson.
No Vested Interest
(5,156 posts)filmed in the 1990's for many years.
There are some very interesting programs and some very bad programs on EWTN.
Like every other tv network, a remote control can be used whenever the program content is not to one's liking.
mentalsolstice
(4,454 posts)My spouse and I are lapsed Catholics....however, that house would've been great, the EWTN campus is beautiful. We knew people who worked for the network, and we often see their nuns while shopping for groceries (they're the only ones in the area who still wear a full habit).
Mother Angelica was never our brand of Catholic. I was close to other nuns from different orders who didn't care for her or her views at all.
That said, may she rest in peace!
5,4,3,2,1....just waiting for the usual to come in and take a dump all over this thread.
rpannier
(24,304 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)I watched her program a few times, but probably never a whole show. I left the RC church decades ago, and she was a blast from my past.
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)I can't follow the Catholicism that she and EWTN represent.
And I'm not sure why the funeral is invitation only, because the Shine (at least to me) seems to be fairly big. Maybe they're anticipating a lot of people showing up and are trying to get ahead of any problems. According to the website, the public may take part in the Mass outside in the piazza.
Rhiannon12866
(202,970 posts)Mother Angelica was a staple there, though mostly in repeats. Very sad for the network, thanks for passing this on...