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RIP Mother Mary Angelica of the Annunciation

Monday, 28 March 2016, 18:00 BFH Uncategorized 16

I have to admit, I am not familiar with her work.

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“Mother has always and will always personify EWTN, the network that God asked her to found,” said EWTN Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Michael Warsaw. “Her accomplishments and legacies in evangelization throughout the world are nothing short of miraculous and can only be attributed to divine Providence and her unwavering faithfulness to Our Lord.”

Mother Angelica. Credit: EWTN.

In 1981, Mother Angelica launched Eternal Word Television Network, which today transmits 24-hour-a-day programming to more than 264 million homes in 144 countries. What began with approximately 20 employees has now grown to nearly 400. The religious network broadcasts terrestrial and shortwave radio around the world, operates a religious goods catalog and publishes the National Catholic Register and Catholic News Agency, among other publishing ventures.

“Mother Angelica succeeded at a task the nation’s bishops themselves couldn’t achieve,” said Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia, who has served on EWTN’s board of governors since 1995. “She founded and grew a network that appealed to everyday Catholics, understood their needs and fed their spirits. She had a lot of help, obviously, but that was part of her genius.”

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16 Comments on RIP Mother Mary Angelica of the Annunciation

  1. Read this book:

    http://networkgonewrong.com/about.htm

    What Went Wrong at EWTN?
    Hoping to avoid a takeover by the American bishops, Mother Angelica resigned from the board of directors of the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) in March of 2000. She relinquished all control over the network she had founded in 1981. With the departure of that feisty and combative nun, EWTN underwent a change for the worse.

    This sure-to-be-controversial book contends that since the departure of its foundress, EWTN has been purveying to millions of Catholics a strange brew of the orthodox and the heterodox, the sacred and the profane. The anti-liberal Popes before the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) would have viewed much of EWTN’s content as Modernist corruptions of the Faith.

    Pope Saint Pius X condemned Modernism as a deadly system of errors. The Modernist views every aspect of the Faith—from liturgy, to doctrine and dogma, to Catholic practices and devotions—as subject to change and “updating” in keeping with “modern times.” St. Pius declared: “[T]here is no part of Catholic truth from which they hold their hand, none that they do not strive to corrupt.”

    Basing itself on extensive evidence taken from EWTN’s own content, and comparing that content to the perennial belief and practice of the Church, the book shows that EWTN’s “moderately Modernist” version of the Faith is precisely what St. Pius X had in view when he condemned Modernism in all its forms, including what His Holiness called “the Modernist as reformer.”

    The book places the problem with EWTN in the larger context of the post-Vatican II crisis in the Church, which resulted from a Modernist insurrection during and after the Council.

    The author notes that this breakthrough, with all its disastrous consequences, was foreseen by the future Pope Pius XII when he was still Vatican Secretary of State. Referring to “the Blessed Virgin’s messages to little Lucy of Fatima,” the future Pope spoke of “this persistence of Mary about the dangers which menace the Church.” He warned of the Modernist “innovators” all around him in the Church, who were poised to attempt “the suicide of altering the faith, in her liturgy, her theology and her soul.” He predicted that “a day will come… when the Church will doubt as Peter doubted.”

    Four years after the death of Pius XII in 1958, that day came with the commencement of the Second Vatican Council. Forty years after the Council’s conclusion, any reasonable observer of the postconciliar crisis in the Church would agree that Pius XII’s dire warnings, uttered in light of the prophecy of the Mother of God at Fatima, have come to pass. The Modernist “innovators” have triumphed, and the Church has been afflicted by a collapse of faith and discipline on a scale not seen since the Arian heresy spread throughout nearly the entire Church in the fourth century.

    The author shows that the “moderately Modernist” version of Roman Catholicism EWTN purveys on television and over the Internet to millions of Catholics embodies much of what the “innovators” feared by Pius XII had in mind. The result is far more insidious than any open heresy, for EWTN’s “fans” are induced to imbibe spiritual poison along with seeming spiritual goods. The unwary thus accept under the guise of orthodoxy many of the errors and abuses the Church condemned before the Council.

    At the same time, EWTN uses its power and influence to marginalize as “extreme traditionalists” faithful Catholics who try to defend their Church against “the suicide of altering the faith, in her liturgy, her theology, and her soul,” which EWTN is helping to advance.

    The author demonstrates that while EWTN holds itself out as the gold standard of Catholic orthodoxy today, it is actually a major promoter of Modernist innovation in the Church. EWTN is therefore a major obstacle to the widespread return to traditional Catholic belief and practice in all its integrity—the only way to end the crisis in the Church. Catholics thus have a duty to oppose what EWTN is doing and to call for its correction.

    This book will shock and outrage many, but the overwhelming evidence it presents will convince the open-minded that EWTN is indeed “a network gone wrong.”

  3. EWTN was instrumental in my conversion. 12 years ago, to Roman Catholicism, which I had resisted for years. It affirmed that I was doing the right thing, and I thank Mother Angelica for that. Their programming, until a few years ago, was educational and inspirational. Now, not so much. It’s like the Pope Francis Fan Club, of whom I am not a fan. But what do you expect? A Catholic network is going to be loyal and support the pope, no matter who it is.

  5. @JD – Are you in communion or are you SSPX?

    Modernism means a lot of different things to people.

    If you are SSPX then I suppose that person would think that EWTN is spreading error.

    EWTN is spreading the teaching of the Catholic Church. Not pre Vatican II or pre-any other council. It spreads the teaching of the Magisterium of the Catholic Church.

    EWTN still broadcasts Mother Angelica’s programs from 20 years ago on a daily basis so if they were wanting to move on from her teachings they are not doing a very good job of it.

    I primarily listen to EWTN radio. I love the apologetics programs and “The Journey Home” which starts at 6pm Mountain on Mondays.

    RIP Mother

  9. Zonga I used to listen to Mother Angelica and Bishop Fulton Sheen, earlier on. Both were not favorites of the “Princes of the Church,” You know the guys who gave Communion to the Kennedy’s, Biden’s, Pelosi’s etc They felt threatened by Sheen and cut him down a notch, same with Sister Angelica.

  10. Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon her. May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.

    I don’t get EWTN on my cheapie cable, but I’ve read Mother’s books. She was a total riot and extremely wise. I love her, and am so happy she was raised to Him, yesterday, on the day we celebrate the Risen Christ.

  11. Good catch Frank. Ewtn has a lot of decent programming. I don’t watch that much but it is not modernism. What Fur’s article leaves out is that Mother Angelica, early on, before EWTN, outed some bishop in California that was preaching the heresy that the Eucharist is not be body and blood of Christ. That was modernism and that was heresy and she at first caught a lot of flack for it. I can’t link this story but after it was all said and done, she ended up with her TV network. The accusation that EWTN is modernism and heresy is without basis. It’s she other way around.

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