I used to live in the neighborhood which bordered the
EWTN monastery. Not that I'm
Catholic. Eventually they started growing and began to buy up the houses directly adjacent to the monastery grounds. We started having to veer around the
nuns as we rode our bikes around the neighborhood streets. But they were always polite to us. The
brothers were usually pretty nice guys, too, they would buy
chocolate from us grade schoolers during those silly
fundraising drives.
Mother Angelica's satellite transmitting dish is enormous. Probably fifty feet in diameter. You can see it from quite a long way away. Compare this technology with the goats and sheep which lived on the grounds directly underneath it and you understand what a wierd place this is.
They are still expanding as far as I know. Coincidentally, Mother Angelica bought up mom's house too when we decided to move.