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MOTHER TERESA'S CRISIS: OTHER REACTIONS
Mother Teresa's canonisation
not to be affected by crisis of faith






London, August 25 (ANI): The Vatican has insisted that Mother Teresa's course to sainthood will not be affected by the deep crisis of faith she suffered in the last 40 years of her life.

The release of old letters revealed a side of Mother Teresa that has shocked some - that the Nobel Peace Prize recipient had serious struggles with her faith.

According to some of the letters within her file, Mother Teresa began to struggle with her belief in God at roughly the same time as she started caring for the poor and sick in Calcutta in 1949.

However, The Vatican has insisted that Mother Teresa's course to sainthood will not be affected by this deep crisis of faith, rather this obvious spiritual torment regarding her faith will actually help give a new insight into her life.

"Mother Teresa has already been beatified. For her canonisation as a saint, she now requires one more verified miracle," the Telegraph quoted Monsignor Robert Sarno, who is in charge of her case at the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, as saying.

Mgr Sarno said that it was "not surprising" that Mother Teresa had, sometimes, turned away from God.

"It would be surprising if she hadn't. It's really very simple. People have to realise that the Church does not canonise God," he said.

"She was a human being, not a cartoon super hero like Batman or Superman, and she faced reality. Even the saints are faced with the difficulties of life," he added.

Mgr Sarno gave the example of how the apostles in the New Testament abandoned God, but still continued with their faith. "They had their problems. They abandoned the Lord and then they rose above that and continued in their faith," he said. (ANI)



'Mother Teresa's doubts showed
she was one of us' - Cardinal Scola



ROME, August 25 (AFP) - Mother Teresa's doubts over the existence of God, revealed in a book to be published next week, showed she was "one of us," Cardinal Angelo Scola, the patriarch of Venice, said Saturday.

"I already wrote about these letters a year ago in the (Vatican mouthpiece) Osservatore Romano," he told the ANSA news agency, adding: "I'm very happy about the publication of this book."

He said the book of letters by Mother Teresa showed that the diminutive Albanian nun who devoted her life to the poor was "one of us, that she did all her work as we do, no more no less."

The letters reveal that Mother Teresa, who is one step short of being made a Catholic saint, suffered crises of faith for most of her life and even doubted God's existence.

"It seems to me that it can reveal something, that even in the experience of the utmost holiness, even when one touches the summits of prayer and contemplation as in the case of Mother Teresa, you cannot ignore man's finite and limited freedom," Scola said.

Even in the depths of doubt, Mother Teresa "always had recourse to the most elementary form of the exercise of one's will, that of asking Jesus each day to reveal his face," the prelate added.

The letters, some of which Mother Teresa wanted destroyed, appear in "Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light," due to be published next week, 10 years after her death. Extracts of the book appear in the latest edition of Time magazine.



'Mother Tresa felt emptiness' -
Archbishop of Kolkata

By Bappa Majumdar


KOLKATA, India, Aug. 25 (Reuters) - Mother Teresa experienced "emptiness" like any human, and the revealing letters she shared with her colleagues portrayed her humility, said the Archbishop of Kolkata, where the nun lived most of her life.

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A book of letters written by Mother Teresa of Calcutta -- now Kolkata -- has revealed that she was deeply tormented about her faith and suffered periods of doubt about God.

"Despite facing the negative side of life, she remained steadfast on her way to holiness, such was her greatness," Reverend Lucas Sircar, who knew her for decades, told Reuters.

Due out on September 4, "Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light," is a collection of letters written to colleagues and superiors over 66 years and complied by an advocate for her sainthood.

In 1956, in one of her letters, she wrote: "Such deep longing for God -- and ... repulsed -- empty -- no faith -- no love -- no zeal."

Those in Kolkata who were close to the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize winner said she had overcome "emptiness" and "doubts," and continued to spread the message of God and love to the poor and ailing until her death in 1997, aged 87.

"Every person at one point in life feels some sort of emptiness, darkness or hollowness, which is the darker side of that person," Sircar said.

"In spite of all temptations, she overcame them, and it was her humility that she shared her weaker side with others in her letters."

The ethnic Albanian Roman Catholic nun dedicated her life to serving the sick, poor and dying in India, particularly in Kolkata, headquarters of the global Missionaries of Charity order she founded in 1950.

Mother Teresa was beatified in 2003 but not yet been canonized by the Vatican.

The archbishop said saints like Saint Paul of the Cross or Saint Augustine had experienced "similar trials" and "hollowness" in their lives like Mother Teresa.

The Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata declined to comment on the letters or on Mother Teresa's faith.

Recalling the nun's last days, her physician Tarun Kumar Praharaj said she told him that she saw God everywhere.

"She would always ask me to help the poor and said she was fine, when she was not, and wanted to help a sick child even from her hospital bed," Praharaj, a cardiologist, said.

Sunita Kumar, a social activist who knew Mother Teresa for many years, said the nun had tremendous faith in God and that her letters revealed only her "natural self."

"After all, Mother Teresa was like any other human who in crisis wishes to see God," Kumar said.

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