Mother Theresa's Crisis of Faith

Mother Theresa, according to a new innocuously titled book, Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light (Doubleday), was a woman whose soul was divided in two. Her public face wore a smile of spiritual content and joy that hid the "dryness," "darkness," "loneliness" and "torture" inside her: a spiritual aridity that began in 1948 and persisted, with a break in 1959 of only five weeks, until her death in 1997. Fifty years of pretending to the world that all was well with her soul... of never feeling or knowing God's presence, and at times, even doubting the existence of Heaven and God himself.

Read the FULL ARTICLE HERE.

But there's more. After reading the article, I became curious about this woman who could live with such cognitive dissonance for so long. What drove her? What kind of a personality was she? What made her the Sainted Mother so many came to see her as? Was she in fact a spiritual giant, or did she suffer from a personality disorder of some sort?

I found very little about her personality or personal life beyond that which is known already. There was much that venerated the work she did, but disturbingly, I also found much that raised hard-to-answer questions about aspects of the work too. HERE is a reprint from the conservative German magazine STERN, published in 1998, that calls both her ministry and its financial management into question--questions that remain unanswered until today....