The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice

The Missionary Position is Christopher Hitchens's argument against the beautification of Mother Teresa. Large sections of his book are entirely persuasive (Terera's ill-considered political affiliations and anti-contraceptive stance were especially toxic) but his one-sided polemic fails to disprove the significant improvements in human welfare realized from the hospitals she founded. He also doesn't fully address the fact that she was (and is) so extraordinarily popular in India, even among non-Catholics.