MOTHER TERESA: A Biography

Macmillan also found himself besieged over the next several days by newspaper reporters asking him about the miracle he had witn ...

Chapter 9 BLESSINGS AND BLAME Thanks to the amazing success of the documentary Something Beautiful for God,Mother Teresa no long ...

opened with a home established in Amman, Jordan. In December 1970, a novitiate, or center to train newcomers, opened in England; ...

nations to her to help the poor in India, when at the same time they turned their backs on those in their own countries who were ...

spreads, which were invariably given away. Donations of washing ma- chines, carpets, or other creature comforts were also given ...

ends meet. For Mother Teresa, this was a bitter blow; her divine Provi- dence, which had made possible the impossible, seemed st ...

After only 18 months in Belfast, the sisters left, stating that they were unwanted and saw no need to risk further danger to the ...

part of Pakistan and was called East Pakistan. Before the partition of India into independent India and Pakistan in 1947, the ar ...

light. Australian feminist and writer Germaine Greer, a Roman Catholic, reported in an article written for the magazine the Inde ...

The article “Saints among Us,” besides providing an overview of Mother Teresa’s work, also suggested that many supporters consid ...

zation Amnesty International for championing human rights around the world. She later joked that the prize would only come to he ...

world. Letters of praise and congratulations also poured in. Many people stopped by Motherhouse to offer their congratulations a ...

It was a bitterly cold day and many people in the audience were bun- dled up in fur coats and hats in the Aula Magna of Oslo Uni ...

because she did not know what was going on. But, as more than one critic has pointed out, the fact that she was in contact with ...

Teresa and Her Missionaries of Charity, offers some clues about her change of heart. Rae, who had previously worked with the ter ...

short films that urged families to limit the number of children, could do nothing. In addition to Mother Teresa’s traveling, the ...

with the world’s poor. On the face of it, the idea of rock star Bob Geldof, lead singer of the Boomtown Rats, meeting with Mothe ...

AN UNHAPPY VISIT In 1988, Mother Teresa traveled to London to visit with Prime Minis- ter Margaret Thatcher. She also visited Ca ...

complained, though, that officials of the British government did little to ease the suffering of homeless in their country, desp ...

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