Mother Angelica: A Strong Woman in Love with Jesus

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Mitch Pacwa | Mar 29 2016 - 3:36pm | 10 comments

Mother Angelica, founder of the Eternal Word Television Network, is pictured in a 1992 photo (CNS files).

After a number of appearances on Protestant radio and television in Nashville, Tenn., in the early 1980s, I was invited by Deacon Bill Steletemeier, the president of Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN), to be a guest on “Mother Angelica Live.” On Sadie Hawkins Day, Feb. 29, 1984, I drove down to Alabama in my $200 car wearing jeans, a flack jacket, hunting boots and a cowboy hat. I met Mother for the first time in the EWTN parking lot. Her first reaction was to hit her forehead with the palm of her hand, but I promised that I clean up real well.