

Instead, she said it in a way that all of us “average Joes” in the pews can understand. When it came to preaching the Gospel and encouraging others to do the same, Mother Angelica didn’t choose to quote papal documents or the lofty language of our Church’s finest theologians. As the Catholic world remembers Mother Angelica, the feisty nun who founded the largest religious communications organization on the planet, it will do us all well to reflect on this first anniversary of her death on how effectively she evangelized just by daring to be herself.
