admit his doubts, or will it take them with him to the grave?
2007-12-04 08:21:59 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
You can put your money on the side that says mother teresa doesn't get acknowledged.
2007-12-05 23:21:43 · 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 17:27:49 · answer #2 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mother Teresa and the Pope are just people. They should never be given the status as anything higher.
2007-12-04 10:04:38 · answer #3 · answered by M 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
M teresa had great faith in God and lived that faith even when she did not have the good feelings that so many falsely make the basis of their faith
2007-12-06 12:01:09 · answer #4 · answered by James O 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take them to his grave...he is the Pope and Popes never divulge their innermost thoughts.
2007-12-04 08:56:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you misunderstand her. She said, she didn't FEEL the presence of God or the presence of Jesus.
In her circumstance of working with the dying poor one would eventually have a feeling of hopelessness.... I'm sure anyone would wonder where is God and why is he allowing such poverty.
2007-12-04 08:39:20 · answer #6 · answered by ♥♥The Queen Has Spoken♥♥ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The pope is a liar so I guess not.
2007-12-04 08:26:58 · answer #7 · answered by Jesusa 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't think thats widely publicized at all..
2007-12-04 08:24:54 · answer #8 · answered by i hate my "job" 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
who cares?
2007-12-04 08:25:08 · answer #9 · answered by David B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋