The missionary position mother teresa in theory and practice

However it has two faults. Jan 23, Marissa Morrison rated it it was amazing Shelves: Teresa, -- Mother, Saint, -- Missionaries of Charity. Published April 17th by Verso first published Hitchens implied in the book that Mother Theresa had a sadistic streak. She espouses the most rigid doctrines of the Catholic Church as in her Nobel Prize winning speech — she is against any form of contraceptive use and lashes out that abortion is the worst sin. Special offers and product promotions Also check our best rated Biography reviews.

What was needed, she maintained, was more work and more faith, not doctrinal revision. Where has all the money gone from the donations? The sisters of Charity would "baptise" people who were at death's door to see that they "went to heaven". It is not a surprise that she patronized frauds like Duvalier and Keating because they gave her big donations and professed themselves to be good Christians.

Hitchens reproduces her letter to the judge on p. It's too long and too comprehensive to work as an essay, but it's too short and disorganized to work as a book. An extended, nun-busting polemic from the The Nation columnist. Apr 09, Chuck rated it it was amazing Shelves:

Much of the publicity around Mother Teresa is revisionistic and dubious, and her displays of humility are an act. Hitchens writes, "The call to go forth and multiply, and to take no thought for the morrow, sounds grotesque when uttered by an elderly virgin whose chief claim to reverence is that she ministers to the inevitable losers in this very lottery. With righteous--and seemingly rightful--indignation, he notes that she purposefully didn't take good care of the poor and sick. Christopher Hitchens never claimed otherwise. Her position was ultra-reactionary and fundamentalist even in orthodox Catholic terms. A quick read - but then everything Hitchens wrote is a quick read, it's so good.