Christopher Hitchens explains it all for you |
| Published: September 5, 2007, 12:43 pm |
| Tags: social issues, creeping fundamentalism, people, catholicism |
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“Hitchens Takes on Mother Teresa,” Newsweek’s website proclaims this week, which is about as fresh a bulletin as Saturday Night Live’s standing gag of “Generalissimo Francisco Franco Is Still Dead.” That Newsweek would invite Hitchens to write an online essay is no great surprise. Even when Hitchens’ purpose is to whistle a happy tune over Mother Teresa’s grave, he does it with a certain flair. Here is a crucial point in his argument: The case of Mother Teresa, who could not force herself into accepting the facile cure-all of “faith,” is that of a fairly simple woman struggling to be honest with herself, while also — this is important — striving to be an example to others. And I believe I have a possible explanation for the crisis. It derives from something that Lord Macaulay said, when reviewing Leopold von Ranke’s “History of the Popes.” The Roman Catholic Church, he wrote, “thoroughly [ Full article ] |
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