The Mother Teresa Papers

Richard Rodriguez on the recent revelations about Mother Teresa. An excerpt:

I think it's going to help her image--if that's the right word--or at least it's going to deepen our sense of her mystery and possibly her sainthood. I think she turned the world's attention to people normally forgotten. And to that degree she was an example of something that is all too rare: someone who devotes their life to the care of others. She washed the sick. She touched the untouchable. She sat with the dying. This is not what most people do in their lives. That she turns out to be a person who suffered doubt in her experience with God deepens her mystery, rather than lessens it, it seems to me.