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...Mother Teresa, the "Saint of the Gutters," went to Oslo. Dressed in her signature blue-bordered sari and shod in sandals despite below-zero temperatures, the former Agnes Bojaxhiu received that ultimate worldly accolade, the Nobel Peace Prize. In her acceptance lecture, Teresa, whose Missionaries of Charity had grown from a one-woman folly in Calcutta in 1948 into a global beacon of self-abnegating care, delivered the kind of message the world had come to expect from her. "It is not enough for us to say, 'I love God, but I do not love my neighbor,'" she said, since...
...spoke as if my very heart was in love with God - tender, personal love," she remarks to an adviser. "If you were [there], you would have said, 'What hypocrisy.'" Says the Rev. James Martin, an editor at the Jesuit magazine America and the author of My Life with the Saints, a book that dealt with far briefer reports in 2003 of Teresa's doubts: "I've never read a saint's life where the saint has such an intense spiritual darkness. No one knew she was that tormented." Recalls Kolodiejchuk, Come Be My Light's editor: "I read one letter...
...love, divine and human. That it does so not in any organized, intentional form but as a hodgepodge of desperate notes not intended for daylight should leave readers only more convinced that it is authentic - and that they are, somewhat shockingly, touching the true inner life of a modern saint...
...which are available at Bergdorf Goodman in New York City and mostly take the form of animals but also the odd musical instrument, has become a rite of passage of sorts for Paris' chicest shops: the sculptures have appeared in the store windows of Christian Lacroix, Chopard, Yves Saint Laurent and Le Bon March?...
...socialist) mayor have also done their fair share to improve Parisian life like Vélib, a new initiative which offers very cheap rental bikes around the city, and Paris Plage, transforming the banks of the Seine into Tahitian beaches for those who can’t flee to Saint Tropez for their summer tanning (although a French friend complained that the whole “93”—one of the more troublesome Paris suburbs–crashes the scene). The impact is already visible across the city. Paris, once dead during the summer, is coming...