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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Jo Asmundsson
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by Jo Asmundsson - Oct. 1, 2008

I found this piece interesting because of the very manner in which it has been written and analyzed. Many will say, this is usual in all believers, to have doubts. Whether Teresa was bedeviled by doubts does not matter, she started a movement caring for others, which is carried on in her name even today, therefore her self doubts are negated by her very actions.

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