Raymond Arroyo
Raymond Arroyo is the news director and lead anchor of EWTN News, the news division of the Eternal Word Television Network, a Roman Catholic broadcasted network founded by the Poor Clare nun Mother Angelica. He is creator and host of the news magazine The World Over Live'"
Biography
Arroyo graduated from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts. Prior to working at EWTN, Arroyo worked at the Associated Press, the New York Observer, and for the political columnist team of Evans and Novak. He is best known as host of the EWTN news magazine The World Over Live, where he has interviewed the people including the first English language conversation ever recorded with Pope Benedict XVI, which was conducted with the then Cardinal Ratzinger. Other interviews include Mel Gibson, who was interviewed on the set of his film The Passion of the Christ. Arroyo's biography of EWTN's founder, Mother Angelica, was a New York Times bestseller. He is also the editor of Mother Angelica's Little Book of Life Lessons and Everyday Spirituality.[1] He has been featured on The Today Show, Good Morning America, and Access Hollywood.
Interviews (PartisanControversy)
Arroyo has also interviewed Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation. The Heritage Foundation has policy relationships with Republican administrations.[2] The Heritage has been cited as contributing to the planning of policy and economic formulations in Iraq.[3] Both Pope Benedict and previous Pontiff John Paul II have condemned the war in Iraq as unjust.[4][5][6][7] In his interview with George Bush on April, 11, 2008,([8])Arroyo mentioned protecting Christian minorities but did not address the Pope's condemnation of the war in Iraq. When Mr. Bush raised the point about moral relativism, Arroyo did not raise the issue of the Bush administration's legalistic definitions of torture, which the Catholic church condemns.(CCC 2297)[9][10] Arroyo has interviewed with other Republican figures such as Laura Ingraham, National Review, and Iraq war advocate George Weigel. Arroyo cited Iranian speed boat threats to US naval vessels on 'The World Over' but then made no follow up comments when this incident was found to be a hoax.[11] Other Arroyo/EWTN contacts are: Bill Donohue of the Catholic League-former Heritage Foundation scholar in residence[12], and Franciscan University of Steubenville- which has a link to the Heritage Foundation on the job links portion of its web site.[13] Arroyo works with co-host Fr. John Neuhaus whose views on the war in Iraq also contradict the Popes.[14][15] and Michael Novak who went as far as to say: "Saddam Hussein has the means to wreak devastating destruction upon Paris, London, or Chicago, or any cities of his choosing, if only he can find clandestine undetectable 'foot soldiers' to deliver small amounts of the sarin gas, botulins, anthrax, and other lethal elements to predetermined targets..." (National Review Online, February 10, 2003).
Books
- Mother Angelica: The Remarkable Story of a Nun, Her Nerve, and a Network of Miracles, Doubleday, 2005. ISBN 978-0395-51093-6
- Mother Angelica's Little Book of Life Lessons and Everyday Spirituality, |Doubleday, 2007. ISBN 978-0385-51985-4
- Madre Angélica: La historia notable de una monja, de su nervio, y de una red de milagros, Doubleday, 2007. ISBN 978-0395-52116-1
References
- ^ Biography. Raymond Arroyo. 8 Feb. 2008. http://www.raymondarroyo.com/biography.html.
- ^ http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1477.html
- ^ Greg Palast, Armed Madhouse, Dutton, 2006
- ^ http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/national/2008/04/16/a-rift-over-iraq-between-president-and-pope.html
- ^ Mark/Louise Zwick, "Pope John Paul II Calls War A Defeat For Humanity: Neoconservative Iraq Just War Theories rejected", Houston catholic Worker, July-August, 2003,http://www.cjd.org/paper/jp2war.html
- ^ Michael Griffin, "New Pope Benedict XVI a Strong Critic of War", Houston Catholic Worker, Special Edition, 2005, http://www.cjd.org/paper/benedict.html
- ^ http://catholicism.about.com/od/thechurchintheworld/f/popes_on_iraq.htm
- ^ http://www.ewtn.com/worldover/index.asp
- ^ http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=23888
- ^ http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt3sect2chpt2art5.htm
- ^ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hooman-majd/its-a-fake_b_80682.html
- ^ http://www.catholicleague.org/about.php
- ^ http://www.franciscan.edu/home2/Content/main.aspx?id=613&cc=611
- ^ Daniel McCarthy, "Catholic Conservatives grapple with their church's Just war tradition," The American Conservative, 29 August, 2005, http://www.amconmag.com
- ^ http://catholicism.about.com/od/thechurchintheworld/f/popes_on_iraq.htm
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