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Also by Christopher Hitchens:

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Our Man in Havana, August 2007
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The Missionary Position, April 1997
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The Missionary Position
Christopher Hitchens

Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice

Verso
April 1997
On Sale: April 17, 1997
98 pages
ISBN: 185984054X
EAN: 9781859840542
Paperback
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Non-Fiction Religion

Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, feted by politicians, the Church and the world's media, Mother Teresa of Calcutta appears to be on the fast track to sainthood. But what, asks Christopher Hitchens, makes Mother Teresa so divine? In a frank expose of the Teresa cult, Hitchens details the nature and limits of one woman's mission to the world's poor. He probes the source of the heroic status bestowed upon an Albanian nun whose only declared wish is to serve God. He asks whether Mother Teresa's good works answer any higher purpose than the need of the world's privileged to see someone, somewhere, doing something for the Third World. He unmasks pseudo-miracles, questions Mother Teresa's fitness to adjudicate on matters of sex and reproduction, and reports on a version of saintly ubiquity which affords genial relations with dictators, corrupt tycoons and convicted frauds.

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