Mother Teresa (house, Religious, cover, track, quote)

sleepy jack · 08-26-2007, 12:04 AM

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In life, Mother Teresa was an icon — for believers — of God's work on Earth. Her ministry to the poor of Calcutta was a world-renowned symbol of religious compassion. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

In a rare interview in 1986, Mother Teresa told CBS News she had a calling, based on unquestioned faith.

"They are all children of God, loved and created by the same heart of God," she said.

But now, it has emerged that Mother Teresa was so doubtful of her own faith that she feared being a hypocrite, reports CBS News correspondent Mark Phillips.

In a new book that compiles letters she wrote to friends, superiors and confessors, her doubts are obvious.

Shortly after beginning work in Calcutta's slums, the spirit left Mother Teresa.

"Where is my faith?" she wrote. "Even deep down… there is nothing but emptiness and darkness... If there be God — please forgive me."

Eight years later, she was still looking to reclaim her lost faith.

"Such deep longing for God… Repulsed, empty, no faith, no love, no zeal," she said.

As her fame increased, her faith refused to return. Her smile, she said, was a mask.

"What do I labor for?" she asked in one letter. "If there be no God, there can be no soul. If there be no soul then, Jesus, You also are not true."

"These are letters that were kept in the archbishop's house," the Rev. Brian Kolodiejchuk told Phillips.

The letters were gathered by Rev. Kolodiejchuk, the priest who's making the case to the Vatican for Mother Teresa's proposed sainthood. He said her obvious spiritual torment actually helps her case.

"Now we have this new understanding, this new window into her interior life, and for me this seems to be the most heroic," said Rev. Kolodiejchuk.

According to her letters, Mother Teresa died with her doubts. She had even stopped praying, she once said.

The church decided to keep her letters, even though one of her dying wishes was that they be destroyed. Perhaps now we know why.

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boo boo · 08-26-2007, 01:09 AM

YouTube - BULL$#!+ - Friends of Mother Theresa
YouTube - BULL$#!+ - Mother Theresa

Theres another link which I will refrain from posting, due to graphic content.

TheBig3 · 08-26-2007, 06:09 PM

I <3 Christopher Hutchins

Son of JayJamJah · 08-26-2007, 07:53 PM

Christopher Hitchins is a marvelous orator and an equal drinker!

swim · 08-26-2007, 07:54 PM

So she's just like every other Catholic. Cool.

anticipation · 08-26-2007, 08:49 PM

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Originally Posted by swimintheundertow

So she's just like every other Catholic. Cool.

player haterz.

All the cool Catholics know that Mother Teresa is so last decade.

boo boo · 08-26-2007, 11:34 PM

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Originally Posted by TheBig3KilledMyRainDog

I <3 Christopher Hutchins

Every liberal says that.

Until they realise that he supported the war in Iraq.

Anyway. I'm currently compiling a list/article/blog of the 50 most evil, stupid and downright loathsome "Christians". Anyone you guys think to be particularly worthy?

EDIT: Please spare me the Bono requests.

adidasss · 08-27-2007, 03:36 AM

I actually already knew this. I don't think it was a big secret. And it makes her work even more incredible.

right-track · 08-27-2007, 04:07 AM

It seems she spent a lifetime discovering something lots of people already know...that there is no God.

boo boo · 08-27-2007, 04:54 AM

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Originally Posted by adidasss

I actually already knew this. I don't think it was a big secret. And it makes her work even more incredible.

Click my links. But if thats not enough you can also look up Aroup Chatterjee and Christopher Hitchens work on her.

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Originally Posted by right-track

It seems she spent a lifetime discovering something lots of people already know...that there is no God.

No one knows that there is no god. Nobody knows anything for certain.

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