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Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and missionary (1910–1997)
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 ...
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’ 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...
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...