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Mother Teresa
BY Father Owen Kearns Publisher
September 9-15, 2007 Issue |
Posted 9/4/07 at 1:00 PM
This week, we are happy to bring you an article by Father
Raniero Cantalamessa, who wrote to us this week asking to publish an article he
wrote about Mother Teresa.
Father Cantalamessa is a Franciscan Capuchin priest who
serves as the papal preacher to Pope Benedict XVI — and did so with Pope John
Paul II before him. Regular readers of the Register will recognize his name —
we regularly quote his homilies in articles, because he has such keen insights
into important contemporary faith questions. We are grateful to him for his
essay on “The ‘Atheism’ of Mother Teresa.”
When he offered it to us for publication, we were already
planning to quote a few words on Blessed Mother Teresa he had said in reply to
questions. How much better it is to be able to allow him to speak directly to
our readers in an exclusive feature-length article.
The story of Mother Teresa’s “dark night of the soul” is a
story that Register readers have been acquainted with for years. We first broke
the story in January, 2003, in an interview with Father Brian Kolodiejchuk, the
Missionary of Charity priest who is the postulator for Mother Teresa’s cause
for canonization.
Our interview got much attention at the time, but only from
religious publications. We have to smile now when we see the news media
reporting that Time magazine broke the story in August 2007 — more than four
years after it was in the Register, and only after the publication of Father
Koldiejchuk’s excellent book, Come, Be My Light.
Speaking of Time magazine, though, some criticized the
editorial the Register printed last week, saying that it was too harsh on the
article in Time magazine — and on reflection, they may be right. The article
was not exactly as we would have written it, but on balance it was quite fair.
Enjoy Father Cantalamessa’s essay. Know that, in reading it,
you are reading an article about one of the greatest saints of our times by one
of the most perceptive spiritual communicators of our times. The opportunity to
read this kind of journalism is exactly why you subscribed to the Register in
the first place.
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