The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice
 

The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice

by Christopher Hitchens

Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, feted by politicians, the Church and the world's media, Mother Teresa of Calcutta appears to be on the fast track to sainthood. But what, asks Christopher Hitchens, makes Mother Teresa so divine? In a frank expose of the Teresa cult, Hitchens details the nature and limits of one woman's mission to the world's poor. He probes the source of the heroic status... (read more)

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