Additionally, she did poorly in school, aside from becoming the drum majorette in her high school marching band. Mother came from a broken home, the cardinal noted, with a father who abandoned her at the age of five and a mother who struggled with depression. He also jested about Mother Angelica's "boisterous" TV personality in spite of being a contemplative Franciscan nun, provoking laughter when he said that her religious name, Mary Angelica, was perhaps a bit "incongruous," since "she was not angelic in any conventional sense." In his homily, Cardinal Pell compared Mother Angelica's life and work at EWTN to the day's Gospel from John, saying that "the spread and effectiveness" of EWTN, founded with an investment of just $200, "was as unexpected as the apostles' huge catch of fish." Cardinal Pell, Prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy, offered Mass April 1 for the repose of Mother Angelica's soul at the parish of St.
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