Media

  • Social media mission
  • Evangelization
  • Parish collaboration

✠ EWTN’s mission is to spread the Eternal Word and to teach others that Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth and the Life. As Media Missionaries, our task is to prayerfully bring EWTN to our parish and community through the print and electronic media EWTN provides. Discern how best to use your God-given talents and inspired passions to share the message of the Gospel.

✠ The Eternal Word Television Network

EWTN is an American basic cable television network that presents around-the-clock, commercial-free Catholic programming. It is the largest Catholic television network in the United States and is purported to be “the world’s largest religious media network”, reaching 425 million people in 160 countries across 11 networks.

The network was originally founded by Mother Angelica, PCPA, in 1980 and began broadcasting on 15 August 1981 from a garage studio at the Our Lady of the Angels Monastery in Irondale, Alabama, which Mother Angelica founded in 1962. She hosted her own show, Mother Angelica Live, until health issues led to her retirement in September 2001. As of 2017, Michael P. Warsaw, a consultant to the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communications, has led EWTN.

In addition to its television network, EWTN owns the National Catholic Register newspaper, which it acquired in January 2011, and Catholic News Agency. The network maintains an online presence through its primary site, EWTN.com, and it has a dedicated commercial site, EWTNReligiousCatalogue.com. EWTN also has a 24-hour radio network, offering Catholic talk and worship programming to about 350 radio stations across the U.S., as well as on SiriusXM Satellite Radio and shortwave radio. Some of the schedule is the audio from EWTN television shows, and some is original programming for radio listeners.

Eternal Word Television Network, Hungary – OB vehicle – Mother Angelica

Regular network programs include a daily Catholic Mass and, sometimes, in the Tridentine Mass format, the traditionalist Stations of the Cross, a taped daily recitation of the Rosary, and daily and weekly news, discussion, and Catechetical programs for both adults and children. Christmas and Easter programming, the installation Masses of bishops and cardinals, coverage of World Youth Days, and Papal visits, deaths, funerals, conclaves, and elections are also presented. Spanish-language broadcasts are available on all platforms. On December 8, 2009, EWTN began broadcasting in high definition.

The network is overseen by a non-profit board of trustees, with the network’s funding provided solely by viewer support and purchases from the network’s online store, known as the EWTN Religious Catalogue; the network has no financing from either the Vatican nor the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, or provider retransmission consent.

✠ EWTN TV Shows & TV listening are delivered here:

✠ St. Jude’s Parish, Hawkesbury, Ontario.