The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice

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In a frank expose of the Teresa cult Hitchens details the nature and limits of one womans mission to the worlds poor. He probes the source of the heroic status bestowed upon an Albanian nun whose only declared wish is to serve God. He asks whether Mother Teresas good works answer any higher purpose than the need of the worlds privileged to see someone somewhere doing something for the Third World. He unmasks pseudo-miracles questions Mother Teresas 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.