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.
- ISBN10 1859849296
- ISBN13 9781859849293
- Publish Date 17 October 1995
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 July 2022
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Verso Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 98
- Language English