In 1981, a simple nun, using merely her entrepreneurial instincts and $200, launched what would become the world s largest religious media empire in the garage of a Birmingham, Alabama, monastery. Under her guidance, the Eternal Word Television Network grew at a staggering pace, both in viewership and in influence, to where it now reaches over a hundred million viewers in hundreds of countries around the globe.
Raymond Arroyo combines his journalist s objectivity and eye for detail with more than five years of exclusive interviews with Mother Angelica. He traces Mother Angelica s tortured rise to success and exposes for the first time the fierce opposition she faced, both outside and inside of her church."