Moder Teresa - helgon eller....?
Tja, bedöm själva...
Har läst liknande saker om henne tidigare, så det är inte precis förvånande.
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"A gifted student who won a university scholarship to study medicine, she chose instead to follow Mother Teresa and joined the Sisters of Charity.
She now lives in coastal New South Wales and is in town for the day. We meet in the brasserie at the Stamford Hotel and she relates why she became a nun.
"When I was a kid, the Biafran famine was in the news. Kids were dying on the television set in front of you. I thought to myself that this couldn't be right and then I saw a Mother Teresa film and thought: 'That's the way to go! Get out there and do something!' I was very naive. I didn't appreciate the implications," she says.
It was not long before she realised that there were two sides to the saintly persona of Mother Teresa which the media had spun.
"Any organisation that demands you stick to a rigid timetable and do exactly what you're told is on the road to inhumanity, and I think and that was the problem," she says.
"Mother Teresa asked you to give up your brain, your will, everything. She asked for total surrender of the person."
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(Alternativt i denna blogg där den först dök upp - den publicerades 5 januari 2009.)
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