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Mother Angelica on Feeding Tube

Feisty founder of EWTN has "suffered a great deal" in the past few months HANCEVILLE, Ala. (ChurchMilitant.com) - Mother Angelica, founder of the first Catholic television network, is now on a feeding …More
Feisty founder of EWTN has "suffered a great deal" in the past few months
HANCEVILLE, Ala. (ChurchMilitant.com) - Mother Angelica, founder of the first Catholic television network, is now on a feeding tube. The winter bulletin from Our Lady of the Angels Monastery, where Mother Angelica is prioress, reveals that her condition has declined and "Mother has suffered a great deal these past months."
She suffered multiple strokes in 2001 after stepping down from leading the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) the year before. Since then she's been convalescing in at the monastery in Hanceville, Alabama, under the care of her fellow nuns. She is 92 years old and celebrated her 70th year in religious life last year.
She started EWTN in 1981, and with her charism, made it the biggest Catholic television network, broadcasting to over 150 countries worldwide. She's most well known for her show Mother Angelica Live, where she spoke frankly on various topics, interviewed guests and answered mail …
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May God purify her through this sickness so that she may, when her time has come, be received by the angels in paradise.