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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Dwight Rousu
3.1
by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

The story suggests religious pap, but rises slightly above that level in places. The article does not mention that people who face harsh reality can naturally be expected to doubt the existance of God. The story is a few paragraphs of light that falls back to religious adoration. This major story on religion is typical TIME pandering to religion addicts to sell magazines rather than doing thorough coverage of the world's important reality based problems that should be the major coverage area for anybody perporting to be a "news" magazine.

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