Holy Troublemakers

A cloistered nun with $200, a garage, and money from fishing lures built a global Catholic TV network — then handed it over. Dom Bettinelli on Mother Angelica, her fights with bishops, and the surrenders that defined her.

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He ranked the schoolmasters below his own valet — then spent the rest of his life proving himself wrong. The canon who gave away a fortune, moved in with the men he despised, and accidentally invented the modern classroom.

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She nearly drowned at 7 and feared the sea all her life, then crossed it more than 20 times. Dom Bettinelli tells how Mother Cabrini turned 2 convents' rejections and an archbishop's "go home" into 67 institutions for immigrants.

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He walked 250 miles rather than ride a horse, and begged mercy for his friend's killers. He also signed off on whippings. Dom Bettinelli doesn't let either half of Junípero Serra's record disappear.

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Stranded on a becalmed orange boat off Sicily, a sick Anglican clergyman wrote six lines that would outlive his career. Dom traces John Henry Newman's path from Oxford star to disgraced convert to Doctor of the Church.

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