Mother Teresa's Crisis of Faith

[ymarkov]

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The two statements, 11 weeks apart, are extravagantly dissonant. The first is typical of the woman the world thought it knew. The second sounds as though it had wandered in from some 1950s existentialist drama. Together they suggest a startling portrait in self-contradiction — that one of the great human icons of the past 100 years, whose remarkable deeds seemed inextricably connected to her closeness to God and who was routinely observed in silent and seemingly peaceful prayer by her associates as well as the television camera, was living out a very different spiritual reality privately, an arid landscape from which the deity had disappeared.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1655415,00.html

Comments

[onionsoupmix.livejournal.com]

I just read that article. It was interesting and there may be some hope for me yet. Maybe instead of being an apikorus, I will become a charitable and kind nun. On the other hand, that would probably not work out so well for the husband.

[bringing-peace.livejournal.com]

amaizing how she carried on......

[malenkiy-scot.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of Julian Castle from Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle.