Raymond Arroyo is an award winning journalist, a New York Times Bestselling author, and a producer. He is the news director and lead anchor of EWTN News, the news division of the Eternal Word Television Network, a Roman Catholic broadcast network founded by Mother Angelica, a nun of the Poor Clare order. 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 where he studied with Stella Adler, Uta Hagen, and others. 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 program The World Over Live, where he has interviewed many Catholic figures including the first English language conversation ever recorded with Pope Benedict XVI, which was conducted with the then-Cardinal Joseph 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. He has been featured on The Today Show, Good Morning America, and Access Hollywood.
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
"The Prayers and Personal Devotions of Mother Angelica", (Doubleday 2010)"Mother Angelica's Private and Pithy Lessons From the Scriptures" (Doubleday 2009)