admit his doubts, or will it take them with him to the grave?
2007-12-04 08:21:21 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
Wow, I'm having a deja vu man.
You can put your money on the side that says mother teresa doesn't get acknowledged.
2007-12-05 23:23:01 · answer #1 · answered by timbers 5 · 9⤊ 0⤋
Every person of faith has occassional doubts.
Some say that people with the most faith sometimes have the most doubts.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta had many doubts. But Mother Teresa was not an Atheist. Atheists do not write honestly to their spiritual guides things like, "In my soul, I can't tell you how dark it is, how painful, how terrible -- I feel like refusing God."
And this is not new. Here is a story from 2001: http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/south/09/06/teresa.letters/
Mother Teresa was not perfect and did not have it easy. She was a real human being with real thoughts and feelings. Just like the rest of us, sometimes she felt close to God and, at times, felt abandoned by God.
She wrote in one of her letters, "I am told God lives in me -- and yet the reality of darkness and coldness and emptiness is so great that nothing touches my soul."
Her letters show a real human struggle with her own spirituality and shows her humanity.
Even Jesus cried out on the cross, "My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?"
Sometimes it seems to be the people with the greatest souls have the greatest doubts.
Struggle through and do not give up. God is with you even if you don't feel His presence at every moment.
With love in Christ.
2007-12-05 17:26:51 · answer #2 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The doubt of whether or not she was a Catholic believer has been largely taken, twisted, and "misinterpreted" by the mass media to make a sensational story and sell the papers.Unfortunately this is true of so many "mediatized" events.
In reality, her private journal indicates she was analyzing her emotions & beliefs on a personal truth-search. Much like any human going through life (religious or not) questioning his own absolutes with doubts.I'm not Catholic, but there are a lot of questionable doctrines in every religion. However, she never affirmed NOT BELIEVING in God or heaven.
Still, this is besides the point, as she was canonized on the basis of her overwhelming humanitarian efforts as a nun in Culcutta.
Hope this helps.
2007-12-04 08:46:46 · answer #3 · answered by pegasegirl 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
As soon as it is "widely publicised" that you are a stalker, can we just arrest you and throw you in jail?
What about a molester?
Rapist?
Come on!!! As long as it's "publicised" it must be true, right?
That's reason enough to attack an innocent woman and a major world religion.
Thanks for a good view or your character.
2007-12-04 14:30:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't find that hard to believe at all , the Catholic Church we must pray for they deal in secret and alot of lies they will have to answer to God they are one of the Church's being spoken on in the book of Rev.
2007-12-04 08:47:30 · answer #5 · answered by foxy_blue00 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
he is catholic
probably has no doubts in his mind
2007-12-04 08:29:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'll have one of whatever you have been smoking brother.
2007-12-04 08:29:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋