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After Mother Teresa's death in 1997, the Holy See began the process of beatification (the second of three steps towards canonization) and Brian Kolodiejchuk was appointed postulator by the Diocese of Calcutta. Although he said, "We didn't have to prove that she was perfect or never made a mistake", he had to prove that Mother Teresa's virtue ...
Drawing on new research on Mother Teresa's early years, Alpion charted her rise to fame, investigating the celebrity discourse in which a nun was turned into a media and humanitarian icon. The book talks about the cultural and critical analysis of Mother Teresa and the way she and others created, promoted, and censored her public image in the ...
Hell's Angel stands as an opposition voice to what its creators perceived as the largely fawning and unquestioning press coverage of Mother Teresa at the time. Of the prior and contemporary press coverage, it states: "This profane marriage between tawdry media hype and medieval superstition gave birth to an icon which few have since had the poor taste to question."
For a nun whose name has long been a byword for pious compassion, her canonization has been met with controversy.
Mr. Kempton chooses the former. Mother Teresa, for all of her faults, chooses the latter." [33] Literary critic and sinologist Simon Leys wrote that "the attacks which are being directed at Mother Teresa all boil down to one single crime: she endeavors to be a Christian, in the most literal sense of the word". He compared her accepting "the ...
Mother Teresa: In the Name of God's Poor is a 1997 made-for-television biographical film directed by Kevin Connor and starring Geraldine Chaplin as Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa herself had approved the script but withdrew her imprimatur shortly before her death. [1] It was broadcast on what was then known as The Family Channel on 5 October 1997.
For 13 seasons, Teresa has been botching idioms, mispronouncing common words and just totally making things up. Whether it’s in the middle of a heated […] And The Real Housewives of New Jersey ...
Aroup Chatterjee (born 23 June 1958) is a British Indian author and physician. [1] He was born in Calcutta, and moved to the United Kingdom in 1985. He is the author of the book Mother Teresa: The Untold Story (originally published as Mother Teresa: The Final Verdict), a work which challenges the widespread regard of Mother Teresa as a symbol of philanthropy and selflessness.