Mother Angelica by Raymond Arroyo
In 1981, the year after Ted Turner founded CN, a simple nun launched the world's first Catholic cable channel in the garage of a Birmingham, Alabama, monastery, using her entrepreneurial instincts and $200 for seed money. Under her guidance, the Eternal Word Television Network grew by leaps and bounds. Today, EWTN offers twenty-four-hour television programming and AM/FM radio broadcasts in both English and Spanish, reaching more than 184 million viewers and listeners in 160 countries.Raymond Arroyo's engrossing biography, reads like a novel. Born Rita Rizzo in Canton, Ohio, in 1923, she was abandoned by her father and raised in poverty by a mother who suffered suicidal depressions. As a young woman, Rita developed severe abdominal pain and large protrusions. After doctors dismissed the problems as a nervous condition, Rita sought the prayers of a local mystic, and her symptoms disappeared.
Awakened to the power of prayer, she vowed to dedicate her life to God. She became a cloistered nun, expecting to spend her life hidden from the world. But her faith compelled her to unlikely endeavors, from establishing a monastery in Alabama to starting the network. Relying solely on God's providence, Mother Angelica built the empire without concern for budgets or fund-raising campaigns. She had accomplished what the highest echelon of the Catholic Church had been unable to do.
Raymond Arroyo is an award-winning journalist, producer, and New York Times bestselling author who is seen in over 250 million households around the world every week. Arroyo has interrogated the world's biggest leaders, including President George W. Bush, Mel Gibson, and Pope Benedict XVI (the only English-language interview ever done with the Pontiff), as host and creator of EWTN's international news magazine The World Over Live. He has worked for the Associated Press, Evans and Novak, a political columnist duo, and as a Capitol Hill Reporter. All five of Arroyo's books have debuted on the New York Times Bestseller List, including the biographical Mother Angelica (Doubleday) and Of Thee I Zing (Simon and Schuster). Truth and Life (Zondervan) and The Word of Promise (Thomas Nelson) are two bestselling, all-star audio Bibles produced by Arroyo.
He's also created Christmas specials for PBS and makes frequent radio and cable appearances to discuss culture and Christianity. He was a CNN Contributor during the 2013 Conclave, and his works have featured in The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The New Yorker, and other publications.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780385510929 |
| ISBN 10 | 0385510926 |
| Title | Mother Angelica |
| Author | Raymond Arroyo |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Doubleday Religion |
| Year published | 2003-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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