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Meet Mother Angelica, 71, improbable superstar of religious broadcasting and arguably the most influential Roman Catholic woman in America. In her day job, Mother Angelica is abbess of Our Lady of the Angels Franciscan monastery in Irondale, Alabama, a suburb of Birmingham. More famously, this self-taught telenun is board chairman (she deplores all-inclusive language) of Eternal Word Television Network, which reaches 36.8 million cable-equipped American homes via 1,204 affiliate systems. The largest of America's three all-religion cable networks, Mother Angelica's channel is going international. On Aug. 15, EWTN will begin 24-hour daily...
...group of Episcopalians in Birmingham invited her to lead some seminars in Bible studies. Her growing fame as a spiritual teacher and writer led to 60 appearances on Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network. In 1981 she founded EWTN, which began broadcasting four hours a day from a primitive studio in a converted garage. Now the network has a staff of 134 and owns property and equipment worth $32.4 million. There is no budget as such. Mother Angelica believes God will provide, and so far he has: last year loyal fans contributed $13.2 million to keep EWTN...
...fact, the Southern Baptists had plenty of chances to reverse their backward stand on racial issues but passed them by, even though many courageous members of the church and some maverick pastors protested in vain against the policies. In his famous "Letter from Birmingham City Jail" in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. responded to a group of "liberal" Southern church leaders who had criticized his nonviolent demonstrations as "unwise and untimely" acts of outside agitation. Wrote King: "In the midst of blatant injustices inflicted upon the Negro, I have watched white churches stand on the sidelines and merely mouth pious...
...Court tended to cast rights in terms of one heroic litigant taking on a corrupt system and winning respect for an essentially negative liberty. The right not to be discriminated against, or not to be kept from speaking, were at the root of such great cases as Walker v. Birmingham or New York Times v. Sullivan...
...Politically he's perceived as one of the soldiers of the leadership," Koocher acknowledges, adding that Thompson has been loyal to the city's most powerful representatives, including House Speaker Charles F. Flaherty (D-Cambridge), Sen. Thomas F. Birmingham '72 (D-Chelsea) and Senate President William M. Bulger (D-South Boston...