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Two Women for the Ages

Started by tomwatson · 11 months ago

How oddly fitting that Princess Diana and Mother Teresa are connected to each other in the world’s memory because they died six days apart in 1997. The coverage of Diana’s death made for a somew ... Continue reading »

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  • Viscount LaCarte

    1 year ago

    Firstly, I'd like to say that this is a very well-written piece.

    Secondly, and I believe that Mother Teresa's loss of faith makes her all the more heroic for her deeds. Speaking as someone who lost his faith many years ago (and doesn't miss it one iota!) to give up one's life in the service of others as its own reward serves as an example to all of us.
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  • Robert Stein

    1 year ago

    Diana's life was supposedly a fairy tale but actually it was a Faustian bargain, and she was cheated. As part of the media that sold magazines with Diana's picture on the covers, I feel less guilty about Mother Teresa, whose doubts only make me admire her more. Here's what I wrote about each of them on my blog:

    http://ajliebling.blogspot.com/2007/08/medias-p...

    http://ajliebling.blogspot.com/2007/08/secular-...
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  • M.A. Peel

    1 year ago

    Viscount, thanks for the note. Mother Teresa does continue to be an inspiration in many ways, even moreso now that we know how very heavy was her burden.

    Robert, I'm glad you bring up the magazine angle. I partook myself. I NEVER buy magazines on the stand, and only subcribe to the New Yorker and the Atlantic, and yet I find that I bought the Time commemorative issue from mid Sept. 1997, which covers both Diana and Mother Teresa.
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  • Tom Watson

    1 year ago

    I second Viscount and Bob on Mother Teresa's doubt - she's raised up for me.
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