In Honor of an Uppity Nun

by Timothy George

On one of my first visits to Rome some years ago, I stepped into an elevator on my way to a meeting in the Vatican. I was greeted by a friendly cleric. “Where are you from?” he asked. “Birmingham, Alabama,” I replied. “Oh,” he said in a hushed tone, “do you know Mother Angelica?” I . . . . Continue Reading »

4 Apr 2016

“Holiness is not for Wimps”: Remembering Mother Angelica

by Bianca Czaderna

Mother Mary Angelica of the Annunciation, a Catholic nun and the only woman in the history of television to found and a lead a cable network for twenty years, died yesterday, Easter Sunday, at age ninety-two.After entering the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration, a Franciscan religious order, in . . . . Continue Reading »

28 Mar 2016