Christopher Hitchens - Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice

The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice Christopher Hitchens (Author) "Who would be so base as to pick on a wizened, shrivelled old lady, well stricken in years, who has consecrated her entire life to the needy and destitute? On the other hand, who would be so incurious as to leave unexamined the influence and motives of a woman who once boasted of operating more than five hundred convents in upwards of 105 countries - "without counting India"? Lone self-sacrificing zealot, or chair of a missionary multinational?" 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. How should we relate to Mother? As an essential salve to the conscience of the rich West, or an expert PR machine for the Catholic Church? In its caustic iconoclasm and unsparing wit, The Missionary Position confirms Christopher Hitchens as one of today's most devastating polemicists. Christopher Hitchens is a journalist living in Washington. He writes the 'Cultural Elite' column for Vanity Fair and the 'Minority Report' column for The Nation. His other books include Blood, Class and Nostalgia: Anglo-American Ironies, International Territory: Official Utopia and the United Nations 1945-95 (with Adam Bartos), and For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports. Enjoy and Seed!!

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ramikaz (2011-10-15)

Hitchens is an a-hole that does whatever he can to get publicity including insulting Mother Teresa (who is in Heaven now) and kissing Zionist jew/israeli ass. He will be in Hell soon, where he belongs.

mausertech (2011-10-16)

ramikaz, you REALLY believe that nonsense don't you. It is YOU that are a captive and in hell here on earth, but in a prison of your mind.

privateer2day (2011-10-16)

Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu was not the saint everyone believes her to be.

mymoto500 (2012-01-29)

a man who supported iraq war then gives moral judgement of mother Teresa ??? has he visited india and saw the work she did ? and did he talk to people whose life she changed ???
i guess no.
only judjing people by their views on abortion and per-marital sex, is lame.
author is disgusting asshole. glad this turd is dead.

sep1984 (2012-11-28)

@tararrr,
mymoto500's view does not have anything to do with religion. why are u bringing it?
Being a nonreligious person and an admirer of Hitch I was surprised when I came to know his view on Iraq war. anyway gonna read the book now and I am sure it is a brilliant one.
@mymoto500,
I got your point. yeah, it was really tough to digest Hitch supporting Iraq war. But that's what we all are. A man can't be always right or wrong. Everyone should try not to read his view on Mother Teresa by judging his stands on other issues. Which is not an easy thing at all to do.

oskitom (2013-03-06)

Gryphon84 (2013-07-30)

Hitchens once branded Mother Teresa “a lying, thieving Albanian dwarf” and said: “She was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God.
“She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction."
Written by the only man to ever represent the devil pro bono, at the request of the Catholic church no less. This book is a must read for anyone who wants a look at the life of a saint without the PR spinnings & payoffs to choirboys.

Primon9 (2014-08-04)

@sep1984
The only way it should be hard to digest Hitch supported the war, is if you think like a leftist sheep. Nobody said he was a fan of the GOP, and I'm almost positive your entire reason for not supporting the war was Bush. Iraq was only one example of what happens when you let religion determine the fate of your people.