Mother Angelica's Unpopular Moment (among many?)

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She greatly influenced my returning to the church. Her shows reruns are amazing, I never miss them. Her wisdom is unbelievable. I’ve often thought how lucky her nuns are to just be around her. It would be great to just follow her around all day, you could learn so much. My favorite show of hers is when she interviewed Father Corapi, I still have it saved on my DVR
 
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She greatly influenced my returning to the church. Her shows reruns are amazing, I never miss them. Her wisdom is unbelievable. I’ve often thought how lucky her nuns are to just be around her. It would be great to just follow her around all day, you could learn so much. My favorite show of hers is when she interviewed Father Corapi, I still have it saved on my DVR
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I liked that episode very much. I have never had the pleasure of meeting Fr. Corapi. I have only seen him on TV. I have to admit that his style of preaching and mine are very different. I found his style to be abrasive, compared to the Franciscans of the Eternal Word or the Franciscans of the Renewal, Fr. Wade, Fr. Pablo and Fr. Dubay or Fr. Mitch. Anyway, you get the picture.

When that episode aired, I got a very different feeling about Fr. Corapi. He was relaxed, funny, gentle, and very personable. After seeing it I walked away feeling that I would love to meet him when he’s not on stage.

Mother I have met many times. When she was younger and making the rounds getting funds for her project, she got around more. She was always very funny, an excellent speaker who held your attention, and filled with common sense. I believe that she was very good for the person in the pew, because she’s not a theologian. Theologians often have difficulty talking plain talk. For example, I really like the roundtable discussions with the Franciscan University group. But I have heard many non theologians say that they get bored, because they have no clue what they’re debating. The dialogue is not what you would hear around the kitchen table. Mother, on the other hand, would be the kind of person whom I can picture at the kitchen table with a mug of coffee in one hand and a cigar in the other telling people how to get their act together.

Fraternally,

Br. JR, OSF 🙂
 
JReducation said:
I liked that episode very much. I have never had the pleasure of meeting Fr. Corapi. I have only seen him on TV. I have to admit that his style of preaching and mine are very different. I found his style to be abrasive, compared to the Franciscans of the Eternal Word or the Franciscans of the Renewal, Fr. Wade, Fr. Pablo and Fr. Dubay or Fr. Mitch. Anyway, you get the picture.

When that episode aired, I got a very different feeling about Fr. Corapi. He was relaxed, funny, gentle, and very personable. After seeing it I walked away feeling that I would love to meet him when he’s not on stage.

Mother I have met many times. When she was younger and making the rounds getting funds for her project, she got around more. She was always very funny, an excellent speaker who held your attention, and filled with common sense. I believe that she was very good for the person in the pew, because she’s not a theologian. Theologians often have difficulty talking plain talk. For example, I really like the roundtable discussions with the Franciscan University group. But I have heard many non theologians say that they get bored, because they have no clue what they’re debating. The dialogue is not what you would hear around the kitchen table. Mother, on the other hand, would be the kind of person whom I can picture at the kitchen table with a mug of coffee in one hand and a cigar in the other telling people how to get their act together.

Fraternally,

Br. JR, OSF 🙂
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One thing about Mother, she isn’t affraid to ask for money, she has gotten a dollar or two from me 😃 I also love the Franciscan University group…Dr Hahn is my favorite there too. They have had my Bishop on there sometimes too. I’ll admit sometimes it is hard to follow for an unsophisticated guy like me 😉 but it gets pretty interesting.
 
bpbasilphx said:
\ This bothered me, also. Of all the world youth on that world youth day that could have played Jesus, they picked a woman. It was certainly a feminist agenda. \

**Was it? Do you have any evidence of this to share?

As far as the Sunday School play (about the raising of Lazarus, btw), it just happened that this girl was the only one able to memorize the lines required.**
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So, are you saying that boys are stupid?
 
Great expose on the WYD-Denver Stations.(link below)

The WYD director of communications said the Pope “liked it”. The Pope’s spokesman, however, said the Pope did not watch the stations on TV.

It also includes a great letter to JPII, co-signed by Catholic Answers founder Karl Keating, sharing Mother’s criticism of the event.

Other signatories include:

Fr. Kenneth Baker, SJ- Then editor of Homiletic and Pastoral Review

Ralph McInerny- Then editor of Crisis Magazine

James Likoudis- Then President of Catholics United for the Faith

Fr. Joseph Fessio- Founder of Ignatius Press

wf-f.org/VoicesSum93.pdf
 
Do you know how I decide what’s right/wrong, important/unimportant in matters such as this? I think of what Christ would say if He were to return, suddenly… I honestly don’t believe that He would think these trite little issues were worth fussing over… I think He’d love the idea that a play about Him was performed, and I think He’s be more interested in strengthening the faith among the audience… But I think it’s fair to say that when we focus on such incidentals and make them bigger than they are, we’ve lost focus and stumbled on the side of the road, a bit. In other words, don’t allow yourself to get caught up in unimportant nonsense – because it’s liable to slow us up a bit while we’re on our journey home.
 
Valarian said:
******I honestly don’t believe that He would think these trite little issues were worth fussing over… ******
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I cannot begin to fathom what He would think. Personally I don’t consider this is/was a trite trite matter at all.

Big trees from little acorns grow as they say.
 
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I honestly don’t believe that He would think these trite little issues were worth fussing over… I think He’d love the idea that a play about Him was performed, and I think He’s be more interested in strengthening the faith among the audience… But I think it’s fair to say that when we focus on such incidentals and make them bigger than they are, we’ve lost focus and stumbled on the side of the road, a bit. In other words, don’t allow yourself to get caught up in unimportant nonsense – because it’s liable to slow us up a bit while we’re on our journey home.
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Taken in isolation, that performance may or may not have been a “trite little issue”, but to Mother Angelica, it was “the last straw”. It was just the latest in a 20+ years long series of abuses and outrages, and she wasnt alone in thinking that. Having an actress play the part of our Lord wouldnt be the best way to strengthen an audiences faith, especially in this age of radical feminisms attempt to destroy the Priesthood with their “priestess” claim.

Mother wasn`t the first nun to speak her mind in that way: at least one nun in the past (St. Teresa of Avila?) told a pope to start acting like one.

Sometimes, people have to be shocked into waking up.
 
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