Today, during his General Audience in an apparently windy St. Peter’s Square (the Pope is still residing in Castel Gandalfo, but returns to Rome for the GA. Oh, and check out Fr. Jay at Young Fogeys for a collage of the Pope’s “Mood Cape.“), Pope Benedict made reference to Mother Teresa, on today the 10th…

Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa, preacher of the Papal Household, reprinted by Sandro Magister:  Today’s world has hatched a new category of people: atheists in good faith, those who experience the silence of God as a painful burden, who do not believe in God and yet do not boast of this, experiencing instead existential anguish and an…

A few interesting reactions from here and there: Carl Olson has some excerpts from Christopher Hitchens on MSNBC. The man (Hitchens) is pathological in his hatred of Mother Teresa. What is it in her that riles him so? We can only guess. Whatever else can be said about Atheistic Flavor of the Year Christopher Hitchens,…

My first post on the story of Mother Teresa’s decades-long struggle with spiritual darkness struck some as “dismissive,” and for that I apologize. That particular reaction was against the press coverage – not the Time article, but the subsequent filtering that I just knew would be picked up as a shocking new revelation and used by…

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