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I worked for Mother Teresa in Calcutta for a couple of weeks, attended services at the monastery, met her briefly, met the priest of the house and had some interaction with him. There was something just slightly cockeyed about the whole thing, theologically. It was like everyone was out to prove something. There was a kind of underlying theme of triumphalism, based on what I think from an Orthodox perspective would be a somewhat skewed understanding of the role of suffering. The priest in particular I thought was way off kilter in a way I'm not going to go into, but it was really disturbing the way he treated young people, especially young women who came to work at the place. So it could be that Mother Teresa got some very bad spiritual advice over the years. Also, it seems to me to be more than just a bit appalling that her written confessions would be made public, against her wishes. I also had the perspective of some Anglicans who had had dealings with her, and you do not get the picture of some saintly person, but rather someone who was almost obssessively possessive. But we all have our quirks, even, perhaps especially saints.