The skeleton on the life of a Missionary of Charity was the timetable by which the community lived. There were certain principles that underpinned this life: that God’s will was manifest in the orders of the superior of the community and so required total submission, that each sister was inherently sinful and that non-religious literature and debate could lead a person astray. more »
After I left Mother Teresa I began my awkward re-entry into Australian society. I worked as a nurse’s aide and a year later a computer error gained me entry to the University of Queensland to study medicine, thirteen years after my peer group. My knowledge of calculus and inorganic chemistry was rusty but I did well once I reached the clinical years. more »
There is a move to canonize Mother Teresa as a role model for contemporary Christians. Her life story and personal spiritual struggles have been examined and discussed but the organisations she founded and the affect they have had on the people within them has received much less scrutiny and is little debated. Does Mother Teresa exemplify compassion or control, faith or doubt, knowledge or ignorance? more »