Penny Lord

Pauline "Penny" Lord (born Pauline Eve Macaluso; September 23, 1928 - January 21, 2014) was a Catholic media figure who, along with her husband Bob, hosted many television series on Eternal Word Television Network. Their main focus was on promoting the lives of Catholic saints and travel videos to international Catholic shrines and pilgrimages.

Background Lord was born on September 23, 1928, in a religious Italian household in Brooklyn, New York. Her father was a civil servant and her mother was a sewing-machine operator for a clothing factory in New York City.

Lord was taught the major Catholic prayers in Italian before she was six by her grandmother. who died young in 1971 from a drug overdose.

Loss of faith Bob and Penny were raised Catholic with Bob going through Catholic schooling while Penny 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". The Lords had never known tragedy before and had "expected Jesus was going to change everything, so that it wasn't going to happen." Bob Lord died on Feb. 13, 2016.