Mother Teresa: A Biography

THE INCULTURATION OF POVERTY One of the greatest challenges that faced Mother Teresa, and that con- tinues today, was the diffic ...

A HOLISTIC WHOLE The theology that Mother Teresa followed is rooted in Church teach- ings prior to Vatican II. This doctrine emp ...

Raghu Rai and Navin Chawla, Faith and Compassion: The Life and Work of Mother Teresa(Rockport, Mass.: Element, 1999), p. 47. Ed ...

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Chapter 6 KALIGHAT On a rainy day in 1952, a young boy, no more than 13 or 14 years old, lay dying on a neighborhood street. He ...

She died a few hours later with Mother Teresa by her side. It was then, Mother Teresa told her audiences, that she had decided t ...

Of all the consecrated ground, the most sacred was the area where the toes of Kali’s right foot lay. On that spot, a temple to t ...

other patients who might refuse to come or try to leave. Mother Teresa also instituted these rules to calm the fears of the loca ...

the city to evict the tenants. They argued that the agreement made with Mother Teresa was only provisional, and that she and her ...

painted on the wall to help keep count of patients and beds. Patients who needed fluids had intravenous tubes connected to vario ...

AN ONGOING MISSION Despite all she had done, there was residual anger over Mother Teresa’s presence so near a Hindu temple. One ...

One of the first to question Mother Teresa’s handling of Nirmal Hriday was a young medical student named Marcus Fernandes. Befor ...

never changed his assessment of Mother Teresa. To him, she was a hard and extremely ruthless woman.^8 Another vocal critic of Mo ...

Mother Teresa’s early successes. Many of these women lived in the exclu- sive areas of Calcutta, belonged to certain clubs, and ...

NOTES Raghu Rai and Navin Chawla, Mother Teresa(Rockport, Mass.: Element, 1992), p. 159. Kathryn Spink, Mother Teresa(San Franc ...

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Chapter 7 SHISHU BHAVAN AND SHANTINAGAR: PLACES OF PEACE By 1955, Mother Teresa turned her energies to another group in need: th ...

Even though many Catholic charities were active in this area and Cal- cutta had a number of orphanages, the number of children o ...

a day old. The infants were brought back to the house, cleaned, fed, and given medical treatment, as many suffered from malnutri ...

children. One of the first was a wealthy Hindu woman who sponsored 10 children for 10 years. In time, other donors would do the ...