[Biggirl]

Oh my goodness, she was one tough gal from the time she was a kid!

I think my mother has the book, not sure.

[RobbyS]

The bishops,led by Cardinal Mahoney, were trying to set up their own network, and undercut her work. She knew how feckless they were, and how liberal Mahoney is, and went her own way. Rome gave some help, but the amazing thing is how this single person was able to create a network that is not world-wide.

[NYer]

Just buy it! You can pick up a used copy for only $7 on Amazon.com. This is one book you will read over and over again.

Do either of you remember the episode where she ripped into Cardinal Mahony over a pastoral letter he distributed to catholics in his diocese? Mother rightly denounced Mahony's "pastoral letter" on the Holy Eucharist as a Modernist obfuscation of the true doctrine of the Mass. Under pressure from Mahony's friends in the Vatican apparatus, Mother made an on-the-air apology; but the "apology" was even more defiant than the original commentary. For nearly an hour Mother "served up a point-by-point critique of the pastoral letter". An infuriated Mahony filed a canonical complaint in Rome. Arroyo quotes one elderly curial Cardinal as admitting that "Mother Angelica has the guts to tell him [Mahony] what we do not." Mahony's canonical complaint ultimately went nowhere, but he had already begun to agitate the Vatican apparatus to take action against Mother. Among the agreements reached, it was eventually agreed to never again publicly televise that particular episode.