‘A religious fundamentalist, a political operative, a primitive sermonizer, and an accomplice of worldly secular powers. Her mission is definitely of this kind. The irony is definitely that she has never been able to induce anybody to trust her. It really is overdue that she was duly honored and taken at her phrase.’

Among his many books, perhaps non-e have sparked more outrage than THE MISSIONARY POSITION, Christopher Hitchens’s meticulous study of the life and deeds of Mother Teresa.

A Nobel Peace Award recipient beatified with the Catholic Cathedral in 2003, Mom Teresa of Calcutta was celebrated by heads of condition and adored by thousands for her focus on behalf of the poor. In his assessed critique, Hitchens asks just that Mother Teresa’s reputation end up being judged by her actions-not the various other way around.

With characteristic élan and rhetorical dexterity, Hitchens eviscerates the fawning cult of Teresa, recasting the Albanian missionary being a spurious, despotic, and megalomaniacal operative from the wealthy who long opposed methods to get rid of poverty, and fraternized, for profit, with tyrants and white-collar criminals throughout the world.