Her dark night

Time, NPR, and other middlebrow oracles reported solemnly, but with great fascination, that Mother Teresa had a fifty-year spiritual drought during which God seemed to be absent. Hitchens compared those who say periods of doubt are not uncommon in the lives of the saints to the old Western Communist...

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Published in:Commonweal 2007-11, Vol.134 (20), p.38
Main Author: O'Callaghan, John P
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Appreciation
Christianity
Faith
Religion
Saints
Spirituality
Teresa (Mother)
Teresa of Calcutta, Saint
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Summary:Time, NPR, and other middlebrow oracles reported solemnly, but with great fascination, that Mother Teresa had a fifty-year spiritual drought during which God seemed to be absent. Hitchens compared those who say periods of doubt are not uncommon in the lives of the saints to the old Western Communists who were incapable of acknowledging the lie at the heart of the Soviet system.
ISSN:0010-3330
2163-3797