HOPE

ENDURES

An Australian Sister's story of leaving Mother Teresa, losing faith, and her on-going search for meaning
Colette Livermore
Colette Livermore

Articles

Nun spurns Mother Teresa's rule to become an author: Mike O'Connor, Brisbane Courier Mail, 16 December 2008
"She looks nothing like the nuns who taught me at St Joachim's, those good sisters who would all but fall to their knees at the approach of a priest.
Colette Livermore, however, spent 11 years within the physical and mental cloisters of religious life and discovered therein the shadows and demons which still torment her." read article

Lost in faith and faith lost: Jenny Tabakoff, Sydney Morning Herald, 1 November 2008
"Eleven years in service to Mother Teresa's order was meant to be God's will, but was "almost like brainwashing" for Colette Livermore, writes Jenny Tabakoff.
Malcolm Muggeridge's documentary about Mother Teresa, Something Beautiful For God, changed at least two lives: his own (the journalist famously converted to Catholicism afterwards) and that of Southern Highlands teenager Colette Livermore." read article