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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 assessment of her charitable efforts.
The novel moves to Franny's life in her twenties. She works as a cocktail waitress in Chicago after dropping out of law school. While waitressing, she meets Leon Posen, a famous, much older author, and begins a relationship with him. Leon uses Franny’s childhood, including Cal's death, as material for a best-selling novel titled Commonwealth ...
Criticists pointed out Mother Teresa's relationship with the right-wing dictator of Haiti Jean-Claude Duvalier (she received the Haitian Légion d'Honneur in 1981); the Communist dictator of Albania Enver Hoxha (she visited his grave in 1987); Charles Keating, who stole in excess of US$252 million in the Savings and Loan scandal of the 1980s;
Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Albanian: [aˈɲɛzə ˈɡɔndʒɛ bɔjaˈdʒi.u]; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), better known as Mother Teresa or Saint Mother Teresa, [a] was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity and is a Catholic saint.
Before Saint Teresa of Calcutta, Trump compared himself to the late South African anti-Apartheid icon in April, a man who spent 27 years in jail as part of his fight for equality.
With reference to Mother Teresa, he twice links "cult" with her name:- "the whole Mother Teresa cult" (p. 22), and "the Teresa cult" (p. 97). That leaves three other uses of the word(s). CH wrote (p. 13) that Mother Teresa is "already the personal object of a following not much short of cultish". Later (p. 41), he discusses what he calls "the ...
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, a 1995 extended essay by English-American journalist and literary critic Christopher Hitchens;
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