![]() ![]() "You say, 'What's in it for us?' " she said with a grin. "Even the Apostles had a hard time with the Resurrection, didya notice that?" she observed during a 1997 show, referring to the Resurrection of Jesus.Ĭonstantly struggling to raise money to underwrite EWTN's multimillion-dollar budget, she displayed a table full of religious mementoes and art reproductions in a 1996 show and urged viewers to place their orders. ![]() The plump nun in the ankle-length brown robe and hair-concealing white scapular, with her high-pitched voice and frequent piercing cackle, drew audiences of millions worldwide with rambling discourses on faith and the Bible, cheery fundraising pitches and humorous maxims. Her influence extended to the Vatican, where Pope John Paul II, considered a conservative on Catholic doctrine, was an admirer. In sheer charisma and devoted followers, she earned comparisons to the popular success of Bishop Fulton Sheen in the 1950s and 1960s. Mother Angelica - born Rita Rizzo in Canton, Ohio, and raised by her mother in a broken, impoverished home - became one of the biggest stars of religious broadcasting. 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. Widely known as EWTN, the network began in a converted garage behind a Catholic monastery Mother Angelica built from scratch in the early 1960s. 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. The death was announced by her cable network in Ironton, Ala., which she began in 1981. ![]() 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.
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