Hypocrite: "Actor. One who affects virtues or qualities he does not have." I don't see where Hitchens fits that definition "in this matter". Maybe you can explain it to me.
On the other hand, Hitchens sees where some others might fit that definition. What would be your definition of the sort of behavior mentioned here?:
"..Believers are likewise enjoined to abhor and eschew divorce, but they are not required to insist that a ban on divorce and remarriage be a part of the state constitution, as Mother Teresa demanded in a referendum in Ireland (which her side narrowly lost) in 1996.
Later in that same year, she told Ladies Home Journal that she was pleased by the divorce of her friend Princess Diana, because the marriage had so obviously been an unhappy one …
[MT took] misappropriated money from the atrocious Duvalier family in Haiti (whose rule she praised in return) and from Charles Keating of the Lincoln Savings and Loan.
Where did that money, and all the other donations, go?
The primitive hospice in Calcutta was as run down when she died as it always had been—she preferred California clinics when she got sick herself—and her order always refused to publish any audit.
But we have her own claim that she opened 500 convents in more than a hundred countries, all bearing the name of her own order.
Excuse me, but this is modesty and humility?
...Many volunteers who went to Calcutta came back abruptly disillusioned by the stern ideology and poverty-loving practice of the "Missionaries of Charity," but they had no audience for their story.
One of the curses of India, as of other poor countries, is the quack medicine man, who fleeces the sufferer by promises of miraculous healing.
Sunday was a great day for these parasites, who saw their crummy methods endorsed by his holiness and given a more or less free ride in the international press. ..."
Hitchens affects the virtues of being honest, objective and reasonable. Concerning Mother Teresa and the Passion he is obviously not.
You quote a long tract from Hitchens attacking Mother Teresa. Why do you believe it? The people who knew here best appreciated her.
By SUSAN CABA CALCUTTA, India -- The truest tribute to Mother Teresa Saturday was in the streets of her adopted city. While cardinals, queens, diplomats and politicians paid homage in a state funeral that stressed her devotion to the have-nots of the world -- but included few of them -- tens of thousands of poor and working-class Indians assembled behind barricades to watch her cortege pass.
She was saying this when it was not cool:
God told us, "Love your neighbor as yourself." So first I am to love myself rightly, and then to love my neighbor like that. But how can I love myself unless I accept myself as God has made me? Those who deny the beautiful differences between men and women are not accepting themselves as God has made them, and so cannot love the neighbor. They will only bring division, unhappiness, and destruction of peace to the world. For example, as I have often said, abortion is the greatest destroyer of peace in the world today, and those who want to make women and men the same are all in favor of abortion.
Here's a short biography. She's done far more than Hitchens will.