Mother Angelica by Raymond Arroyo

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 internationally recognized, award-winning journalist, producer, and a New York Times bestselling author, seen each week in more than 250 million homes around the globe. As host and creator of EWTN's international news magazine The World Over Live, Arroyo has interrogated the leading figures of the day including President GW Bush, Mel Gibson, Pope Benedict the XVI (the only English language interview ever conducted with the Pontiff). He has worked for the Associated Press, the political columnist team of Evans and Novak, and as a Capitol Hill Correspondent. All five of Arroyo's books including the biography Mother Angelica (Doubleday) and Of Thee I Zing (Simon and Schuster) have all debuted on the New York Times Bestseller List. Arroyo is the producer of the bestselling, all star, audio Bibles, Truth and Life (Zondervan) and The Word of Promise (Thomas Nelson). He has also produced Christmas specials for PBS and regularly comments on matters of culture and faith on broadcast and cable. During the Conclave of 2013 he was a CNN Contributor and his writings have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The New Yorker, and elsewhere.

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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
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