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The Missionary Position - Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice (Paperback, Main)
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The Missionary Position - Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice (Paperback, Main)
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Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, feted by politicians, the
Church and the world's media, Mother Teresa of Calcutta appears to
be on the fast track to sainthood. But what makes Mother Teresa so
divine? In this frank and damning expose of the Teresa cult,
Hitchens details the nature and limits of one woman's mission to
help the world's poor. He probes the source of the heroic status
bestowed upon an Albanian nun whose only declared wish was to serve
God. He asks whether Mother Teresa's good works answered any higher
purpose than the need of the world's privileged to see someone,
somewhere, doing something for the Third World. He unmasks
pseudo-miracles, questions Mother Teresa's fitness to adjudicate on
matters of sex and reproduction, and reports on a version of
saintly ubiquity which affords genial relations with dictators,
corrupt tycoons and convicted frauds. Is Mother Teresa merely an
essential salve to the conscience of the rich West, or an expert PR
machine for the Catholic Church? In its caustic iconoclasm and
unsparing wit, The Missionary Position showcases the devastating
effect of Hitchens' writing at its polemical best. A dirty job but
someone had to do it. By the end of this elegantly written,
brilliantly argued piece of polemic, it is not looking good for
Mother Teresa. - Sunday Times
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