Mother Teresa: A Biography

Chapter 10 “THE MOST OBEDIENT WOMAN IN THE CHURCH” Even though Mother Teresa kept up her busy schedule, it was clear by the earl ...

UNWILLING TO LET GO By 1990, given her ill health, Mother Teresa began giving serious thought to stepping down as head of the Mi ...

“THE MOST OBEDIENT WOMAN IN THE CHURCH” 125 flattering, portraying her as demanding and egotistical. This was only por- tent of ...

out that there were a number of other individuals and groups doing far more for the city’s poor than the Missionaries of Charity ...

chances are the order would certainly make much more of a difference in working with the poor. Instead, Mother Teresa spread her ...

THE MISSIONARY POSITION AfterHell’s Angel Hitchens published a small book that picked up where the film left off. In The Mission ...

had the benefit of an almost unprecedented public forum. But while speaking out against abortion in Great Britain, Ireland, and ...

world, and that she certainly did not need any more money, Mother Teresa, after a puzzled look, replied, “Oh yes, the book. I ha ...

In her article “No Humanitarian,” Mary Poplin who spent two months working as a volunteer, described the rough conditions of Mot ...

The announcement came as a terrible shock to the group. But for those who had been with Mother Teresa almost from the beginning, ...

MORE CONTROVERSY Mother Teresa’s final years were touched by controversy. In February 1994, she attended a National Prayer Break ...

siderable disillusionment with both Mother Teresa and the Missionaries of Charity. Not more than two months later, Mother Teresa ...

children make up the majority of those sold into bondage to pay off debts to upper-caste creditors. It was the government provis ...

the group would meet again to choose either a new head or reelect Sister Nirmala. Despite the effort at compromise, the transiti ...

held a state funeral for Mother Teresa. On September 13, her body was carried through the streets of Calcutta on the same gun ca ...

was to help individuals and bear witness to the Divine presence in the world, not fight for social change. As with all candidate ...

to prevent them from being exploited by commercial interests. It is diffi- cult to say what the future holds for the order; like ...

Many writers have depicted Mother Teresa as someone who saw the poor and responded sympathetically to their needs. That is not q ...

NOTES Anne Sebba, Mother Teresa: Beyond the Image(New York: Doubleday, 1997), p. 122. “Mother Teresa Dies,” BBC Politics 97, ht ...

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