Filomena Giese wrote: > >As far as any cool-headed reader can tell, Srinivasan has not attacked Mother Teresa. >
It turns out that Christopher Hitchens, the author of "The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice" has just written a scathing article in an Australian news publication denouncing her beatification. The article rehashes his old criticisms of Mother Teresa, and astonishingly, calls her a fraud. I don't want to post a link to that article here, not just because I think that most of the criticism in it is unwarranted and unjust, but also because I worry about the health of our home-grown pious apologists for the miracle business. Nonetheless, I am posting below a less provocative excerpt from that article because I was surprised by the statements contained in it. >From the many published accounts that I read over the past couple of weeks, I thought Hitchens had played the role of a devil's advocate in the investigative process. But here is what he says: "As it happens, I myself was interviewed by them (Vatican investigators) but only in the most perfunctory way. The procedure still does demand a show of consultation with doubters, and a show of consultation was what, in this case, it got." Cheers, Santosh ########################################################################## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##########################################################################
