The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and PracticeRecipient 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? |
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... cult known some- times as ' Insight ' but more accurately as MSIA ( the ' Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness ' , pronounced ' Messiah ' ) , he is a fraud of Chaucerian proportions . Probably best known to the public for his lucrative ...
... cult known some- times as ' Insight ' but more accurately as MSIA ( the ' Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness ' , pronounced ' Messiah ' ) , he is a fraud of Chaucerian proportions . Probably best known to the public for his lucrative ...
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... cult , is the impression that Calcutta is a hellhole : As it happened , I lived in Calcutta for eighteen months in the middle Thirties when I was working with the Statesman newspaper there , and found the place , even with all the ...
... cult , is the impression that Calcutta is a hellhole : As it happened , I lived in Calcutta for eighteen months in the middle Thirties when I was working with the Statesman newspaper there , and found the place , even with all the ...
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... cult member , this is because in many ways it is . She relates that , within the order , total obedience to the dic- tates of a single woman is enforced at every level . Questioning of authority is not an option . I was able to keep my ...
... cult member , this is because in many ways it is . She relates that , within the order , total obedience to the dic- tates of a single woman is enforced at every level . Questioning of authority is not an option . I was able to keep my ...
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