Christopher A. Ferrara writes;

Having been silenced by the Vatican since 1960, the year the Third Secret of Fatima was to be revealed to the Church and the world, Sister Lucy of Fatima went to her eternal reward on February 13, 2005. On April 2, 2005 the long reign of John Paul II ended with his own death, and Catholics now pray for the repose of his soul. But the crisis in the Church rages on just as predicted in the Third Secret. Millions of Catholics remain unconvinced that the Vatican’s disclosure of the obscure vision of a bishop dressed in white being executed outside a half-ruined city is all there ever was to the Secret that had been kept under lock and key in the Vatican for more than forty years. Speaking for members of the faithful all over the world, Mother Angelica, the feisty and tradition-minded foundress of the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN), made the following declaration on her live television show of May 16, 2001: As for the Secret, well I happen to be one of those individuals who thinks we didn’t get the whole thing. I told ya! I mean, you have the right to your own opinion, don’t you, Father? There, you know, that’s my opinion. Because I think it’s scary... Some seven months later, following the first of two strokes (and a series of previously undetected mini-strokes), Mother Angelica left the airwaves as EWTN’s live television host. As noted in a biography of Mother Angelica by EWTN personality Raymond Arroyo, by the end of 2001, Mother Angelica’s detachment from EWTN was complete. Mother Angelica’s role at EWTN is now reduced to leading the Rosary in short pre-recorded segments and the broadcast of some of her old television shows censored for “theological correctness” by EWTN’s current management. One might say that Mother Angelica has been “Sister Lucy-ized”—but not on account of the strokes. While EWTN says the strokes have rendered Mother Angelica unable to appear on television, in truth she had already been driven from her position of control over the network she founded by an episcopal power play orchestrated with the assistance of a Vatican congregation. Mother Angelica’s order, the Poor Clares, owned EWTN’s assets, including the new Shrine, and not EWTN’s civil corporation board of directors, of which Mother was CEO with full veto power over the board’s decisions. If it could be established that Mother’s order owned the assets, then the whole EWTN enterprise could be subjected to ecclesiastical control, including the possible appointment of a “progressive” replacement for Mother Angelica herself. In desperation, Mother made a prudential decision that in retrospect was a huge mistake: Fearing that Archbishop Gonzalez’s report to the Vatican would recommend an ecclesiastical takeover of her apostolate, Mother surrendered all control over EWTN to the lay people who run it today. At an emergency board meeting in March of 2000, she resigned as CEO of EWTN, relinquishing her veto power, and with it her control over EWTN’s affairs. Mother would hang on as EWTN’s live television host until December 2001. With Mother Angelica’s departure as the network’s signature personality by the end of 2001, the "original vision of a Catholic restoration was quickly lost and has never been recovered".

This statement that the "original vision of a Catholic restoration was quickly lost and has never been recovered", is a lie according to a review of the book "EWTN: A Network Gone Wrong", by By Bro. Peter Dimond, O.S.B. In Bro. Peter Dimond review, he states that for anyone who has just a little honesty and a little familiarity with the positions and programming of EWTN prior to Mother Angelica’s “departure” in 2000 or 2001 (whenever you want to date it), that the "original vision of a Catholic restoration was quickly lost and has never been recovered" is quickly seen to be an outrageous falsehood. Under the control of Mother Angelica, EWTN promoted the same false ecumenism, the same denial of Outside the Church There is No Salvation, the same rejection of the necessity for Protestants to convert (as exemplified on The Journey Home), the same type of Rock Music (Life on the Rock), etc. that Ferrara complains about and denounces in his book. During the reign of Mother Angelica, EWTN covered and promoted John Paul II’s interreligious apostasy – for instance, his Pan-Christian Encounter in 1999 and many other events with heretics and schismatics– it promoted the cult of John Paul II and, of course, it promoted the New Mass and Vatican II to the core, while rejecting independent traditionalists. (Jeff Cavins, by the way, said on EWTN radio that our material should be thrown in the trash.) EWTN was the same network of apostasy under Mother Angelica that it is now, with minor differences in programming, such as would change on any network from year to year. This, of course, is very obvious and well known to anyone who knows anything about the network (as Ferrara and Gruner certainly do) and is honest at all. In response to this book, even EWTN personality “Fr.” John Trigilio objected to the ridiculous assertion that everything has changed since the demise of the popular nun: To get the full text of the review of the book "EWTN: A Network Gone Wrong", here is a link that will reveal what Bro. Peter Dimond, O.S.B. has to say about the Doctrines of the Catholic Church. Well, that Mother Angelica person has kicked the bucket and she will not be spewing her paganized, apostate religion of her phony god, Je-Zeus Christ. That apostate church will just have to settle to broadcast re-runs of her speaches and ill informed, apostate pagan beliefs. This is a church which represent a fictitious pagan Baal god or gods which has deceived a great many people throughout the centuries with their lies and false teachings. Giving people the false impression that they are worshipping the true GOD of Heaven, when they are in fact worshiping gods of their own making. Such is the Roman Catholic church, who pretends to be so pious when in truth, they lust for power and control. One need only to look at their past history to realize the truth which I speak of. Their own history speaks more loudly than anything I may say about this perverted church with a perverted religion called Christianity.