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English American author and journalist (1949–2011)
Christopher Hitchens publicly and repeatedly condemned Mother Teresa as “a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud,” a line he used in essays, broadcasts and later in his book and documentary critiques...
Christopher Hitchens’ one-liner about “the governor of Texas” saying “if English was good enough for Jesus, then it’s good enough for me” echoes a long-running apocryphal slogan tied to early 20th-cen...
Christopher Hitchens’ high-profile critiques — notably Hell’s Angel and The Missionary Position — prompted public debate and were read by bodies examining Mother Teresa’s life, and the Vatican’s canon...
was not a child trafficker; contemporary fact-checking and news reports find no evidence she personally sold or trafficked children, and the criminal allegations that surfaced in 2018 involved staff o...
Christopher Hitchens’ The Missionary Position argued that Mother Teresa’s public saintliness masked political compromises, poor medical practice in her homes, and a priority on spiritual salvation ove...
There is documented evidence that the Missionaries of Charity (MoC) lost formal access to foreign donations in India when the Ministry of Home Affairs declined to renew its FCRA registration on Decemb...
Supporters and defenders of Mother Teresa responded to Christopher Hitchens’ criticisms with sharp rebuttals, personal testimony about her charitable work, and publications defending her record; promi...