Mother Angelica

Book of the Day: Mother Angelica: Remarkable Story of a Nun, Her Nerve, and Network of Miracles, by Raymond Arroyo. Publisher: Doubleday.

Anyone who has flipped through the cable channels over the past couple of decades has probably come across Mother Angelica's Eternal World Television Network. A cloistered Franciscan nun, Mother Angelica expressed an unapologetic and uncensored Catholic traditionalism which rankled not only liberal Catholics in America, but quite a few Catholic bishops as well. That she was able to achieve such a position of power and influence is remarkable to say the least.

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