Mother Teresa (1910-1997), the ethnically Albanian nun born in what is now known as North Macedonia and whose name has become a synonym for saintly goodness, was officially canonized in 2016, mostly for her missionary work with the poorest of the poor in Kolkata, India. But she continues to be a controversial figure, loved and worshipped by many Catholics but reviled by others who accuse her of hypocrisy and cruelty. Her most eloquent critic, the journalist Christopher Hitchens, once wrote that she “was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty.” And that was one of his kinder aperçus.

Mother Teresa (1910-1997), the ethnically Albanian nun born in what is now known as North Macedonia and whose name has become a synonym for saintly goodness, was officially canonized in 2016,

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