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Mother Angela was a dear friend to the late Delores Grier, vice chancellor of NY and founder of the Association of Black Catholics Against Abortion (ABCAA). When visiting her brother Reggie Grier (a parishioner of mine at Holy Spirit), she would attend my Masses. She was a regular on the station.
Many of us were pleased to see Gloria Purvis take up her mantle in speaking about the place of Black Catholics in the Church. But she upset the powers-that-be and she was fired from EWTN television and radio. It still upsets me.
I had the good fortune to meet Mother Angelica back in the 1980’s. She gave me a tour of her studio and the chapel which was then under construction. While she sometimes challenged wayward bishops, she was a holy woman whose faith was real and life-changing for millions. Since her passing, the news outlet element of her network has grown increasingly political.
EWTN should not have visible ties to Fox News or any such secular network. The main news anchor seems increasingly self-serving and fawns over certain celebrities in the entertainment industry. It is embarrassing.
The main anchor has adopted a not so subtle adversarial stance toward the Holy Father, first with Francis and now with Leo XIV. Liturgical issues aside, are conservative, or better yet, supposedly “orthodox” Catholics, too quick to challenge the Pope on matters like immigration and ethnic justice? Are we the arbiters of papal authority, pronouncements and actions?
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