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Strength Through Suffering David van Biema's article on Mother Teresa was a spiritual meditation in itself [Sept. 3]. His insights and parallels with other mystics of the church, especially John of the Cross, come through effortlessly. As for Mother Teresa, she took a vow of poverty, in her case manifested as spiritual poverty. She demonstrated that our greatest crosses turn into our greatest strengths. Tom Prendeville, DUBLIN The face of Mother Teresa on your cover said it all. It revealed that what she wrote about the darkness in her soul for almost 50 years was the truth. Thank...
Christopher Hitchens once devoted an entire book to portraying Mother Teresa as a phony, so perhaps Billy Graham got off easy when Hitchens described him, in a recent C-Span appearance, as "a self-conscious fraud," who didn't believe a word of what he preached, but was just in business for the money...
...Strength Through Suffering David Van Biema's article on Mother Teresa was a spiritual meditation in itself [Sept. 3]. His insights and parallels with other mystics of the church, especially John of the Cross, come through effortlessly. As for Mother Teresa, she took a vow of poverty, in her case manifested as spiritual poverty. She demonstrated that our greatest crosses turn into our greatest strengths. Tom Prendeville, Dublin...
...face of Mother Teresa on your cover said it all. It revealed that what she wrote about the darkness in her soul for almost 50 years was the truth. Thank you for giving us the outstanding portrait of that much admired, mysterious nun. The sadness of the whole world seemed mirrored in those eyes. Father Albert Herold, Order of Saint Benedict, Mtunzini, South Africa...
...Diana mattered not only to Britain but to the whole world, as indicated by the global grief that accompanied her death. Although a princess, she was a humanitarian unequaled in the 20th century who crossed the boundaries of class and race. When I saw her with Mother Teresa, I was struck by the thought that, no matter what walk of life one comes from, sisterly love can be a universal attribute toward which we should all strive. Despite human frailties, she made the world a better place for all. Sonja Rencken, Abcoude, the Netherlands...