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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (12354)	4/25/2001 2:43:39 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Here's one you should appreciate, Neocon. Interview with Mother Teresa servelec.net Time: Humble as you are, it must be an extraordinary thing to be a vehicle of God's grace in the world. Mother Teresa: But it is His work. I think God wants to show His greatness by using nothingness. Time: You are nothingness? Mother Teresa: I'm very sure of that. The whole interview was a bit Gumpish. Personally, I think sometimes people put a little too much faith in popular icons, as used to happen with the more traditional variety. Also, a compare and contrast review with a somewhat more faded icon of the cold war era: Despite obvious differences, Mother Teresa and Tom Dooley bore important similarities. Both cared less about the medical niceties of their work than about its personal and spiritual dimensions. Both had charismatic abilities with live and electronic audiences to open donors' purses, and few scruples about where the money came from: the savings-and-loan kingpin Charles Keating gave Mother Teresa money later alleged to have been stolen, then she asked Lance Ito, the judge in his case, to be lenient. Both promoted their celebrity status, citing its service to their causes, though Dooley appears far more the huckster, in part because he has been dead long enough for his secrets to be unearthed. Both presented themselves as above politics while diving into it -- Mother Teresa in her implacable if unsurprising opposition to abortion, Dooley in his association with anti-Communism, and both in their contacts with world leaders, some eager to partake of their saintliness. Both shifted missionary work away from conversion -- less defensible in a postcolonial age -- and toward what Fisher calls ''postdenominational humanitarianism,'' tapping desires, especially among young people, for something more uplifting than conventional cold-war postures. (Dooley, in any case, increasingly distrusted them and Mother Teresa never much embraced them; she drew criticism for laying flowers on the grave of the Albanian tyrant Enver Hoxha.) http://archives.nytimes.com:80/plweb-cgi/fastweb?view=book-rev&numhitsfound=1&query=mother%20teresa%20michael%20sherry&query_rule=%28$query%29&docid=24144&docdb=bookrev-arch&dbname=bookrev-cur&dbname=bookrev-arch&numresults=10&operator=AND&TemplateName=doc.tmpl