Neither did Mother Teresa. That's the point. Do you have a reading comprehension problem? I'm serious. Have you taken the ACT? Comprehension inadequacies like yours above show up on that test.
No, the point is that Mother Teresa, in her own words, told us she had lost her faith. Period.
Do you have a reading comprehension problem? I'm serious. Have you taken the ACT? Comprehension inadequacies like yours above show up on that test.
lol. Wow. So we're comparing SAT scores now? How about LSATs? And maybe a few alphabet tests I would wager you've never heard of. lol.
This isn't the first time a Roman Catholic doesn't appear to be able to understand the written word. Sadly, it won't be the last. It's systemic.
"So many unanswered questions live within me afraid to uncover them — because of the blasphemy — If there be God — please forgive me — When I try to raise my thoughts to Heaven — there is such convicting emptiness that those very thoughts return like sharp knives & hurt my very soul. — I am told God loves me — and yet the reality of darkness & coldness & emptiness is so great that nothing touches my soul.
Eight years later, she was still looking to reclaim her lost faith.
What do I labor for?" she asked in one letter. "If there be no God, there can be no soul. If there be no soul then, Jesus, You also are not true."
"Such deep longing for God… Repulsed, empty, no faith, no love, no zeal," she said.
This crisis of faith began in 1946, the same year that she began her evangelistic work among the poor in Kolkata, and continued unabated, except for a few weeks in 1958, until her death in 1997. The church assigned a long series of priests and bishops to act as her confessors, trying to help her recover her faith, but all of them ultimately met with failure.
"According to her letters, Mother Teresa died with her doubts. She had even stopped praying, she once said. "