Does Mother Teresa deserve her reputation as the most charitable person of all time? Does Calcutta deserve to be known as the ultimate hell-hole? Admiration for Mother Teresa is based less on facts and more on the domino effect of myth making. She was a lover of poverty, rather than the poor. She loved suffering—but for others. She once said to a woman in pain, ‘Jesus is kissing you.’ But she herself received the best medical care possible. Her admirers know little of her life-view and ideals: her life-long opposition to artificial contraception, her virulent campaigns against abortion for any reason, including rape and child-abuse. At the height of the cold-war in her Nobel Prize speech she called abortion ‘the greatest destroyer of peace’. In the same speech she made some fantastic claims about her work in Calcutta. She wanted to open a special prison for doctors who performed abortion, but for child-abusing Catholic priests she offered only prayers. This book reveals the REAL Teresa.
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