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Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu MC (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Albanian: [aˈɲɛzə ˈɡɔndʒɛ bɔjaˈdʒi.u]; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), better known as Mother Teresa, [ a] was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and the founder of the Missionaries of Charity. Born in Skopje, then part of the Ottoman Empire, [ b] at the age of 18 she moved ...
BX4406.5.Z8 H55 1995. The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice is a book by the journalist and polemicist Christopher Hitchens published in 1995. It is a critique of the work and philosophy of Mother Teresa, the founder of an international Roman Catholic religious congregation, and it challenges the mainstream media's ...
Something Beautiful for God is a 1971 book by Malcolm Muggeridge on Mother Teresa. [1] [2] [3] The book was based on a 1969 BBC documentary on Mother Teresa (also entitled Something Beautiful for God) [4] that Muggeridge had undertaken. [5] In his book Muggeridge was a former left-wing radical. He became disillusioned with communism when he was ...
Mother Teresa joins a long list of historical figures that the former president has improbably claimed kinship with, writes Joe Sommerlad. ... I wouldn’t say very, but he was a conservative ...
Pope Francis has cleared the way for her sainthood by approving a decree recognizing a miracle attributed to her intercession with God.
For a nun whose name has long been a byword for pious compassion, her canonization has been met with controversy.
Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980) was an American journalist, social activist and anarchist who, after a bohemian youth, became a Catholic without abandoning her social activism. She was perhaps the best-known political radical among American Catholics. [ 1][ 2]
Overview. In Mother Teresa: Saint or Celebrity?, Gëzim Alpion explored the significance of Mother Teresa to the mass media, to celebrity culture, to the Church, and to various political and national groups. Drawing on new research on Mother Teresa's early years, Alpion charted her rise to fame, investigating the celebrity discourse in which a ...