My first contact with the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) came long before I became Catholic. Channel-surfing during a sleepover at a friend’s house when I was younger, my friend and I landed on Mother Angelica praying the Rosary. A mixture of boredom and intrigue led us to join along. I had the “Hail Mary” down pat after five repetitions. When I converted more than a decade later, I had Mother Angelica to thank for teaching me how to pray the Rosary.
It’s easy enough to forget that the largest religious-media network in the world was founded by a scrappy nun out of a garage in Alabama, because, well, scrappy truth-telling nuns don’t exactly make the cover of Vogue in today’s culture. But the network’s critics, then and now, continue to inadvertently remind us of the incredible impact the network has had and continues to have on the world.
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