Christopher hitchens autobiography
Christopher hitchens autobiography
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The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice
book by Christopher Hitchens
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice is a book by the journalist and polemicistChristopher Hitchens published in It is a critique of the work and philosophy of Mother Teresa, the founder of an international Roman Catholicreligious congregation, and it challenges the mainstream media's assessment of her charitable efforts.
The book's thesis, as summarized by one critic, was that "Mother Teresa is less interested in helping the poor than in using them as an indefatigable source of wretchedness on which to fuel the expansion of her fundamentalist Roman Catholic beliefs."[1]
Only pages in length,[1] it was re-issued in paperback and ebook form with a foreword by Thomas Mallon in [2]
Background
Hitchens addressed the subject of Mother Teresa on several occasions before publishing The Missionary Position.
In he devoted one of his