# Mother Angelica died Easter Sunday. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 28, 2016, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mother-angelica-died-easter-sunday/750458 "2016-03-28T14:18:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mother-angelica-died-easter-sunday/750458/1 "2016-03-28T14:18:48Z")
Her show still airs in reruns. I’d often stumble across it while channel surfing. I always ended up watching. Her wry humor and straight forward approach made her religious discussions very entertaining and informative. I’m not Catholic but I sure liked this lady’s show. her old shows are on EWTN’s youtube channel. [heres a Christmas show](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Irc_WAEigro) [http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/global-catholic-network-founder-mother-angelica-died-37972494](http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/global-catholic-network-founder-mother-angelica-died-37972494) > [@](#): > > Mother Mary Angelica, a folksy Roman Catholic nun who used a monastery garage to begin a television ministry that grew into a global religious media empire, has died. She was 92. > > Known to millions of viewers simply as “Mother Angelica,” the founder of the Eternal Word Television Network died Easter Sunday at the rural Alabama monastery where she lived about 45 miles north of Birmingham, according to EWTN Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Michael P. Warsaw. > > "Mother has always, and will always, personify EWTN, the Network which she founded. ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mother-angelica-died-easter-sunday/750458/2 "2016-03-28T14:25:16Z")
She’s gone home. She was fantastic and never preachy, while at the same time being faithful to the teachings of the Church. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mother-angelica-died-easter-sunday/750458/3 "2016-03-28T14:37:28Z")
[Mother Angelica’s Wikipedia article.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Angelica) She led quite a life often marred by painful health problems. Even as a young adult she had problems with her knees and then later an accident injured her back and spine. > [@](#): > > In 1981 Mother Angelica started broadcasting religious programmes from a converted garage in Birmingham, Alabama, and over the next twenty years developed a media network which included radio, TV, and internet channels as well as printed media.[2] > > Mother Angelica hosted shows on EWTN until she suffered a stroke in 2001. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mother-angelica-died-easter-sunday/750458/4 "2016-03-28T15:15:44Z")
R.i.P., but I honestly thought she had passed away years ago. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mother-angelica-died-easter-sunday/750458/5 "2016-03-28T15:33:44Z")
Remember her from Capt Janks and the Howard Stern Show… [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/gJU_oLZ8Duo/hqdefault.jpg "Capt Janks Prank Calls Mother Angelica") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJU_oLZ8Duo) ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mother-angelica-died-easter-sunday/750458/6 "2016-03-31T03:58:57Z")
Wow, I had no idea she had until now still been alive. When my grandmother was too sick from chemo to go to church she watched her. And Grammy died in 1984. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mother-angelica-died-easter-sunday/750458/7 "2016-03-31T15:13:00Z")
I’ve never been much of a conspiracy theorist, plus I’m a practicing Catholic; however when I heard she died on Easter Sunday I raised an eyebrow. :dubious: I have to admit the thought crossed my mind if it were possible she was about die, and it was somehow manipulated to occur on Easter Sunday. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mother-angelica-died-easter-sunday/750458/8 "2016-03-31T15:34:30Z")
Wouldn’t she have aimed for Good Friday?