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HITCHENS CHRISTOPHER THE MISSIONARY POSITION

In this frank and damning exposé of the Teresa cult  Hitchens details the nature and limits of
one woman's mission to help the world's poor. He probes the source of the heroic status
bestowed upon an Albanian nun whose only declared wish was to serve God. He asks whether Mother
Teresa's good works answered any higher purpose than the need of the world's privileged to see
someone  somewhere  doing something for the Third World.   He unmasks pseudo-miracles 
questions Mother Teresa's fitness to adjudicate on matters of sex and reproduction  and reports
on a version of saintly ubiquity which affords genial relations with dictators  corrupt tycoons
and convicted frauds. Is Mother Teresa merely an essential salve to the conscience of the rich
West  or an expert PR machine for the Catholic Church? In its caustic iconoclasm and unsparing
wit  The Missionary Position showcases the devastating effect of Hitchens' writing at its
polemical best.

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