mother angelica quote about adam you know how men are

But she was also concerned about the troubles I was having convincing my colleagues that political discourse should also include conservatism. She’d ask about my wife (pregnant for the first time), she wanted to know what other book projects I was working on, and she was fascinated by the range of subjects we covered: from biography to sailing to politics, and whatever else we thought we could sell. In those days I was an early riser and would get into the office in Midtown Manhattan ahead of everybody else – I’m talking before 7AM – and Mother Angelica knew this and would call to chat.

Those talks were supposed to be about the book, but they were mostly about my life in Christ. I spent a few happy days with Mother in Irondale, Alabama, and later we had some lovely, early morning phone conversations together: she at her monastery and I in my New York office. In this case, however, the agent thought the “liberationist” orientation out on the Left Coast was wrong for Mother, whereas I – one of the few conservative Catholics in New York publishing – was the right man for the job. It was the only Catholic book I did while at the company, because another division, Harper San Francisco, was supposed to handle such books. I was an editor at Harper & Row Publishers (now HarperCollins) at the time. I had the honor and the pleasure of editing the first “major” book by Mother Angelica (written with Christine Allison), called Mother Angelica’s Answers Not Promises (1987).

Mother angelica quote about adam you know how men are