In this new biography, students will follow Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu
from her humble Albanian birth to worldwide celebrity as Mother
Teresa. The nun who attended to the dying and diseased in Calcutta,
India, and established her Missionaries of Charity around the world
is revealed to have a singular determination from a young age. As a
woman in the patriarchal Catholic system, she had to prove to the
hierarchy, even the Vatican, that she was capable of handling each
project she proposed. Her vision to live and work among the poorest
of the poor as one of them led to the founding of a new order that
tended to society's outcasts. The narrative chronicles the
expansion and success of the order and the eventual attention that
was showered on her efforts. This increasing attention led to
scrutiny and criticism of ideology, methods of care, and financing.
Why did she reject better medical equipment for her patients yet
receive the latest treatment and best care when she herself was
ailing? Why did she take money from and try to help Charles
Keating, a major player in the savings and loan scandal of the
1980s? The accusation of hypocrisy, among others, are discussed as
is her controversial beatification. Readers will be challenged to
consider for themselves whether Mother Teresa deserves to be
sainted. Mother Teresa is characterized as being ordinary and her
life as mundane. The biography suggests that she transcended her
ordinariness with a singular belief that she was called to life's
work. When this work brought fame, which she never sought, she used
it to further her causes. In a global age, celebrity worship
allowed her to work the system. She became an icon of service and
selflessness, but her human flaws remained behind the saintliness.
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