Irondale, Ala. (CNA/EWTN News) — The Catholic Church in the United States has lost the Poor Clare nun who changed the face of Catholicism in the United States and around the world. Mother Mary Angelica of the Annunciation, foundress of the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN), passed away on March 27 after a lengthy struggle with the aftereffects of a stroke. She was 92 years old.
"Mother has always and will always personify EWTN, the network that God asked her to found," said EWTN Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Michael Warsaw. "Her accomplishments and legacies in evangelization throughout the world are nothing short of miraculous and can only be attributed to divine Providence and her unwavering faithfulness to Our Lord."
"They were happy and lively times … we were alert … to what was happening to people, to poor people, all over the world … I think we really did try to understand how the different economic systems works, and the politics of our nations, and we wanted to see America change, really change, and we were going to do something about it." Tom McDonough's An Eye For Others: Dorothy Day, Journalist 1916-1917 — to be released April 5 — focuses on Day's early years as an investigative journalist for a socialist newspaper, long before her conversion to Catholicism and subsequent fame.
The format of the book is fairly straightforward: the chapters are organized according to thematic content, and include relevant transcriptions of Day's New York Call articles, complete with political cartoons. McDonough foregrounds the article transcriptions with helpful and at times, keenly insightful, historical context, including excerpts from Day's later work. As a result, the book reads more like a work of scholarship than a hagiography. This distinguishes McDonough's book from other biographies, and underscores the point that Day's journalism and social commentary deserve wider consideration beyond the small Catholic circles in which she is revered.
