[ARA]

Nothing matters but Grace...

[SuziQ]

This author has joined the ranks of the the likes of Christopher Hitchens and Germaine Greer, both of whom had burrs up their butts about Mother Teresa. I wonder about this woman; did she join the order with the intention of looking for dirt about them? She certainly wasn't in there for very long.

[the invisib1e hand]

a valid point: any sacred teaching, secularized, is going to be abused. if you interpret teachings apart from faith, you will misunderstand and misapply them.

the author of this piece clearly has a chip on her shoulder and is seizing the opportunity to parade her misunderstanding and secularization of teaching to justify herself. Poor, warped thing. She's bitter, probably signed on for all the wrong reasons, and didn't get the hoped for results. Now, consistent with this sort of personality, it's all the authority figure's fault (in this case, Mother Theresa). This person could lead many astray. And damn the media that lust after material like this.

[PhatHead]

This is quite old - published in the Dec 97/Jan 98 issue of "Free inquiry" (a publication of the Council for Secular Humanism, not exactly hard journalism)- just four months after Mother Teresa's death. It's vile, but the story obviously didn't have legs. If you search for criticism of MT, it seems that Shields and Hitchens are virtually the only sources cited.