Washington Post / Newsweek: Mother Teresa and the Experience of Faith
Do I think more or less of Mother Teresa after the publication of her diaries? Answer: I think the same (which is quite highly), though in a different category. I think less of those who use her experience of the absence of God as proof for the non-existence of God. The two have nothing to do with each other. I welcome her honesty, her eloquence, the passion of her soul-searching, and regard the disclosures as signs of pathos: how sad the she, who sought so hard, did not find, or receive.
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So I don't get to vote with Rome on her sainthood or not. I do vote for her to be seen as a profoundly interested person who kept agonies to herself until her work was done, after which the revelation of the agonies could serve spiritual purposes without distracting her from her healing work.
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