Mother Angelica
I am just finishing reading the biography of Mother Angelica.
Hmm...sounds like the devil got hold of the "middle management" (i.e. some bishops and a lot of the church bureaucracy) and thought he was in charge.
And God only got hold of a nun in Alabama.
It reminds me of Sister Nadine's story: she asked God: What does America need? One saint was the answer.
Funny....but to those of us more "educated" and "sophisticated" she is both shrewd and funny and delusional, figuring God "told" her these things...on the other hand, sometimes you just know certain things you are supposed to do, and from a cynical sense they don't make sense either.
The really good news is that she didn't get excommunicated, like Mary McKillop, or threatened with the Inquisition, like Teresa of Avila.
Hmm...sounds like the devil got hold of the "middle management" (i.e. some bishops and a lot of the church bureaucracy) and thought he was in charge.
And God only got hold of a nun in Alabama.
It reminds me of Sister Nadine's story: she asked God: What does America need? One saint was the answer.
Funny....but to those of us more "educated" and "sophisticated" she is both shrewd and funny and delusional, figuring God "told" her these things...on the other hand, sometimes you just know certain things you are supposed to do, and from a cynical sense they don't make sense either.
The really good news is that she didn't get excommunicated, like Mary McKillop, or threatened with the Inquisition, like Teresa of Avila.
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