Mother Teresa's Crisis of Faith

A new, innocuously titled book, Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light (Doubleday), consisting primarily of correspondence between Teresa and her confessors and superiors over a period of 66 years, provides the spiritual counterpoint to a life known mostly through its works. The letters, many of them preserved against her wishes (she had requested that they be destroyed but was overruled by her church), reveal that for the last nearly half-century of her life she ... Full Story »

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by Dale Penn - Oct. 1, 2008

Time's religion writer, David Van Biema, provides a reasonably unbiased look at revelations in the new book "Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light." Generally presented through a Christian patriarchal prism, he also offers brief insights from both atheist and psychoanalytical perspectives, a welcome antidote to what could have been otherwise discarded as mere PR for the book and the church. A life likely to be dissected by thinkers, seekers and believers of all stripe for years (eons?) to come, this piece does an excellent job of presenting information in a way that may inspire skeptics like me to take a look at the writings and life of the person the author anoints the "saint to the skeptics."

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