
To preside, a person must live from the rich ambiguity of symbolic reality. What we do at liturgy takes us beyond the literalness that dominates our lives.

So how bad was this document? Did Mother Angelica overreact? She took exception to a document written by Roger Cardinal Mahony in 1997. I am too young to remember Mother Angelica, but I do have vague memories of my mother watching her on television. They do not like to see her virtues praised, and many are using the internet to demean her with vile comments. This has infuriated the so-called “progressive” liturgists, to whom she was an enemy. In 2009, Mother Angelica was a recipient of the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice Award granted by Pope Benedict XVI for services to the Catholic Church.OTHER ANGELICA of EWTN has passed away, and an astounding number of people-from quarters I’d never expect-have been praising her life and accomplishments. She continued to live in the cloistered monastery in Hanceville until her death at age 92 on March 27, 2016, Easter Sunday. Mother Angelica hosted shows on EWTN until she had a stroke in 2001. Over the next twenty years, she developed a media network that included radio, TV, and internet channels as well as printed media. In 1981, Mother Angelica started broadcasting religious programs from a converted garage in Birmingham, Alabama.

She continued to live in the cloistered monastery in Hanceville until her death Mother Mary Angelica of the Annunciation, PCPA (born Rita Antoinette Rizzo Ap– March 27, 2016), usually known as Mother Angelica, was an American Franciscan nun best known as a television personality and the founder of both the internationally-broadcast cable television network Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) and the radio network WEWN.

Mother Mary Angelica of the Annunciation, PCPA (born Rita Antoinette Rizzo Ap– March 27, 2016), usually known as Mother Angelica, was an American Franciscan nun best known as a television personality and the founder of both the internationally-broadcast cable television network Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) and the radio network WEWN.
