Was Mother Teresa an Agnostic?Tommi Avicolli-Meccabyline‚ Aug. 27‚ 2007The world loved Mother Teresa, because she was everything that people expect in a Good Samaritan. She took care of the poor and sick, including people with AIDS, and never asked anything in return. She didn’t have a luxurious mansion like fundamentalist preachers do, she didn’t drive fancy cars (in fact she auctioned off the one the Pope sent her), and she didn’t wear expensive clothes. When she died in 1997, then-Pope John Paul II rushed to start the canonization process, ignoring the usual five-year waiting period. There’s no doubt that Mother Teresa will end up a Catholic saint. For a church tarnished by all those priest sex scandals, the popular icon couldn’t be more of a godsend. |