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Rykell
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Praise God! and thanks be to Mother Angelica for following His inspiration! It’s all we have, folks, as TNT said.
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Crumpy
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Gee, no one seems to have noticed that this thread is incorrect.
It’s the Eternal “WORD” Television Network.
What’s the “eternal world”?
Why does anybody think that Mother Angelica was forced out?
I think she was being pushed “IN” to the network too much, for her age. Aside from Bob Barker, how many other 80-year-old’s are on TV?
Not only that, but since the nuns moved to Hanceville, Mother Angelica was living 50+ miles away. Gee, when the nuns built the “shrine”, it was pretty clear that there was no professed religious sister who was going to walk in behind Mother Angelica on the air.
This is just my opinion, but I think Mother Angelica had too much control of the network, and I sense she micromanaged it. I did not perceive any “succession planning” for Mother Angelica, right up to the time she had her stroke. She was on the air as soon as she could get back, paralyzed face and eyepatch and everything.
If anybody thinks she was forced out, why would they not think it was “time” to give this poor woman a break? Keeping her on the air any longer would have been a tasteless spectacle.
I am on the outside of the circle who “loved” Mother Angelica. Even now they talk about her “sharp” wit. I thought her wit was too sharp for a nun or a Catholic. I didn’t like it.
Some say that the network has become too evangelical, being taken over by these ex-ministers. I think that’s what has been lacking, all along. I don’t think we hear the ‘eternal word’ enough on this network.
It’s the Eternal “WORD” Television Network.
What’s the “eternal world”?
Why does anybody think that Mother Angelica was forced out?
I think she was being pushed “IN” to the network too much, for her age. Aside from Bob Barker, how many other 80-year-old’s are on TV?
Not only that, but since the nuns moved to Hanceville, Mother Angelica was living 50+ miles away. Gee, when the nuns built the “shrine”, it was pretty clear that there was no professed religious sister who was going to walk in behind Mother Angelica on the air.
This is just my opinion, but I think Mother Angelica had too much control of the network, and I sense she micromanaged it. I did not perceive any “succession planning” for Mother Angelica, right up to the time she had her stroke. She was on the air as soon as she could get back, paralyzed face and eyepatch and everything.
If anybody thinks she was forced out, why would they not think it was “time” to give this poor woman a break? Keeping her on the air any longer would have been a tasteless spectacle.
I am on the outside of the circle who “loved” Mother Angelica. Even now they talk about her “sharp” wit. I thought her wit was too sharp for a nun or a Catholic. I didn’t like it.
Some say that the network has become too evangelical, being taken over by these ex-ministers. I think that’s what has been lacking, all along. I don’t think we hear the ‘eternal word’ enough on this network.
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BobP123
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So which interpretation do you like best?
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bear06
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Since Mother Angelica was basically kicked out at EWTN,
Helloooooooo. She had a stroke! Hopefully she’ll rebound again from this illness as she has so many others but to say that she was kicked out is quite silly. There’s more than a few of the friars who wouldn’t sit by and say nothing about it if she were indeed kicked out.
But wait! I forgot! They just made it look like a stroke and she’s being stowed away in some dungeon somewhere.
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AngelRose81
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JMJ_coder
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Hello,
I checked out there website, and you’re right. I have never noticed that!!! I honestly thought it was eternal world (like Rome is the eternal city).
It reminds me of when I was a child learning to make my first confession and I couldn’t understand for the life of me why, when we made the act of contrition we said “Lord, I am hardly sorry for having offended You”
And the old pastor of my childhood parish used to say that for the longest time he thought the words to the hymn “Peace is flowing like a river” said “setting all the cactus free.” And he couldn’t figure for the life of him why Jesus was in the desert freeing all the cactus.
Thanks for the correction.
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I checked out there website, and you’re right. I have never noticed that!!! I honestly thought it was eternal world (like Rome is the eternal city).
It reminds me of when I was a child learning to make my first confession and I couldn’t understand for the life of me why, when we made the act of contrition we said “Lord, I am hardly sorry for having offended You”
And the old pastor of my childhood parish used to say that for the longest time he thought the words to the hymn “Peace is flowing like a river” said “setting all the cactus free.” And he couldn’t figure for the life of him why Jesus was in the desert freeing all the cactus.
Thanks for the correction.
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BobP123
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Actually I thought it was the Eternal WORLD TELEVISION NETWORK. But Eternal Word works for me.Hello,
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I checked out there website, and you’re right. I have never noticed that!!! I honestly thought it was eternal world (like Rome is the eternal city).
It reminds me of when I was a child learning to make my first confession and I couldn’t understand for the life of me why, when we made the act of contrition we said “Lord, I am hardly sorry for having offended You”
And the old pastor of my childhood parish used to say that for the longest time he thought the words to the hymn “Peace is flowing like a river” said “setting all the cactus free.” And he couldn’t figure for the life of him why Jesus was in the desert freeing all the cactus.
Thanks for the correction.
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CherryBomb
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I like EWTN. Some of their programs are boring, but I really love the Journey Home and some others (life on the rock cracks me up because it’s so cheesy, but in a sweet way, if that makes sense).
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CherryBomb
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Oh and for the longest time I thought it was worLd, too! I thought it was strange and then realized one day it was actually woRd! 
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bear06
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CatholismRox
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I don’t think there is anything wrong with EWTN, infact I am a big supporter. Please anyone feel free to pm me if you think differantly about EWTN. I am also a Media Missionary. EWTN is a great way to get the Catholic faith over the waves of media.
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rescath
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Ferrara spends chapters showing examples – and I don’t have the time to cite them all, and he shows before & after Mother Angela to show the shift. There are certainly many good things on the network (as Ferrara himself admints), but there are some serious issues also. You have to watch certain shows to notice.
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KatieD
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I really like EWTN. As someone earlier posted, there is no other network on which we can learn as much about our faith. Shows like “Journey Home,” “EWTN Live,” “Father Corapi,” “Life on the Rock,” “Sunday Night Live” and many others have helped each of my family members learn more about the faith. Raymond Arroyo’s show has some terrific interviews. Sure, there are some things on the network I could live without, but I am grateful EWTN is there.
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TorontoCatholic
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Since when does a Bishop have the right to forbid a priest from celebrating the Mass according to the rubrics? The rubrics say, for some parts ‘facing the people’, for other parts it says ‘facing the altar.’ Whether the priest is facing the people or not when he ‘faces the altar’ should make no difference.
Although with the American bishops I am not surprised something like this did happen.
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Andreas_Hofer
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Of course some of us noticed - I noticed before I ever opened the thread. We just didn’t find it necessary to point out.
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Andreas_Hofer
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The limitation is not on the use of ad orientem, but on televising it. Rome upheld the bishop’s ruling in that case.
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bear06
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How about you just let me know? I don’t spend money of Ferrara books and since I don’t know anyone who has a copy of that one, you’ll have to enlighten me. Does he say she didn’t have a stroke? Honestly, that boys spend too much time creating little conspiracies if he said that she didn’t have a stroke or that this isn’t the second one she’s had. He probably has her sitting in a dungeon somewhere.
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PhilipCal
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I watch EWTN quite often. Do I like all the programming? No. I do like several of the offerings though, including Web of Faith, Life on the Rock, and The Catholic Church Through the Ages. I’m in Youth Ministry in my parish, and all of these shows are of considerable help to me in aiding the young adults I help instruct.Mother Angelica as all us of know, has suffered a stroke, and is no longer active in EWTN on a day to day basis.Was she forced out? I guess it depends on who you talk to. The question seems rather academic in view of her present condition. The best thing I can do is to continue to pray for Mother, and for the network she founded. I feel both are worthy of that.
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apriltherese
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I love EWTN and I love Mother Angelica - God brought me into the church through the network. In fact, Mother Angelica is the one program that did it for me. Sure, there were other things that brought me home (through many, many years of subtle hints), but she had a MAJOR part to play in my (ongoing) conversion. My love and prayers go with Mother Angelica and EWTN!
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