Mother Teresa: A Biography - Softcover
This new biography for students follows Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu from her humble Albanian birth to worldwide celebrity as Mother Teresa. The nun who attended to the dying and diseased in Calcutta, and established her Missionaries of Charity around the world is revealed to have had a singular determination from a young age. As a woman in the patriarchal Catholic system, she had to prove to the hierarchy, even the Vatican, that she was capable of handling each project she proposed. Her vision to live and work among the "poorest of the poor" as one of them led to the founding of a new order that tended society's outcasts. This narrative chronicles the expansion and success of the order and the eventual attention that was showered on her efforts. This increasing attention led to scrutiny and criticism of her ideology, methods of care, and financing. Why did she reject better medical equipment for her patients yet receive the latest treatment and best care when she herself was ailing? Why did she take money from and try to help Charles Keating, a major player in the savings and loan scandal of the 1980s? The accusations of hypocrisy, among others, are discussed as is her controversial beatification by Pope John Paul II only 6 years after her death. Readers will be challenged to consider for themselves whether Mother Teresa deserves to be canonised.
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?[P]rovides an excellent biography suitable for high schools and public collections alike. Mother Teresa's beliefs, her noted humanistic works, and her vision to live and work among the poorest in the world are reviewed in an excellent work filling a reference gap for comprehensive yet readable biographies.?-MBR Bookwatch --MBR Bookwatch
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Meg Greene is a freelance writer. She has written numerous biographies of historical and popular culture figures.
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- PublisherJaico Publishing House
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 8184953577
- ISBN 13 9788184953572
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages170
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