Is David Scott’s biography of Mother Teresa of Calcutta a disaster or a smashing success? It’s published by Sophia Press, so there are no qualms there. It is spiritually sound, even illuminating, so there are no qualms there, either. But like every other study of Mother Teresa, it lacks information about … about … wait for it … Mother Teresa herself.
Those who wish to learn about Mother Teresa in herself will find this enormously frustrating, and the author knows it. In fact, I presume every biographer of Mother Teresa starting with Malcolm Muggeridge has known it. The bottom line is that there is simply very little known about Mother Teresa. Most of what might have been gleaned about her childhood was destroyed in the Communist takeover of Albania. The rest was lost by the almost total refusal of Mother Teresa to talk about it—that is, to talk about herself.
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