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11 Facts About Penny Lord

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Pauline "Penny" Lord was born on Pauline Eve Macaluso; September 23,1928 - January 21,2014 and was a Catholic media figure who, along with her husband Bob, hosted many television series on Eternal Word Television Network.

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Penny Lord's father was a civil servant and her mother was a sewing-machine operator for a clothing factory in New York City.

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Penny Lord was taught the major Catholic prayers in Italian before she was six by her grandmother.

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Penny Lord began her schooling at a public school in Brooklyn, but graduated from Richmond Hill High School after the family relocated to the borough of Queens.

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Penny Lord attended Davis and Elkins College in Elkins, West Virginia with an intent to study law in Chicago.

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Penny Lord's interests shifted and she went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City.

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Bob and Penny Lord were raised Catholic with Bob going through Catholic schooling while Penny Lord had one year of catechism for one hour every week, but reflecting upon it later held that they "did not have a synthesis" between head and heart, "we either had an emotional relationship or a cerebral relationship".

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Penny Lord recalled to an interviewer about a crisis that caused her faith to lapse.

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Penny Lord loved Him like a child, emotionally, and, when she believed that He had betrayed her, she was completely hurt and there was no reconciliation between the two of them.

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Penny Lord, after recovering from the shock, reflected on the idea and recalled that Bob had gone to Mass with her for eighteen years so agreed to go for the first time "after three years and a couple of months".

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When business at the travel agency fell off due to the rise of terrorism in the Middle East, Penny Lord told her husband that she felt spiritually called to write a book about Eucharistic miracles.