Not so sure on that one. Christ died to wash away our sins. All our sins. The thief on the cross was with Him in Paradise.
I want you to be right. She was often strict.
When some shady figures in the television business made moves to get her out of the ownership of the EWTN TV network she founded starting with nothing and gain financial control in a hostile takeover she defied them. “Before I let them win I’ll burn down the network.”
Like Father Mitch Pacwa and Raymond Arroyo and others on the network, she was criticized:
At the beginning of my article Fr. Richard Kennedy is quoted. His short letter ends with a label: Mother Angelica “chose to follow the road to the extreme far right”–and then, one supposes, she fell over the edge of the world. It wasn’t enough for Kennedy to classify her as “conservative” or even as “reactionary.” She had to be placed among the denizens of the “far right,” and not anywhere on the “far right,” but at the “extreme” end of it. Perhaps he thinks her closest neighbor is Attila the Hun.”” Bashing Mother Angelica by Karl Keating.