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Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and missionary (1910–1997)
Mother Teresa described suffering as both a spiritual gift when united with Christ’s passion and as a social evil when it takes the form of loneliness, unwantedness, or being unloved; she called suffe...
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...
Mother Teresa framed poverty as both a material condition and a deeper spiritual and relational lack — , and taught service to the poorest as the highest moral duty . Her public teaching and practice ...
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...
Mother Teresa repeatedly framed poverty as more than lack of food or shelter, calling loneliness, being unwanted and unloved “the most terrible poverty” and “the greatest poverty” . Multiple compendiu...
The Home for Infant Children in , is documented in contemporary reporting as having opened in June 1995 and later ceased operating as an infant-care/adoption facility, but public records of its adopti...
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...
The short answer: helped open a infant home associated with and in 1995, and Mother Teresa participated in its opening, but the partnership was more symbolic and facilitative than a formal joint found...
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...