Trashing Mother Teresa

摘要

Christopher Hitchens, the washington-based British journalist, has made a career of being a bad boy. But in attacking Mother Teresa of Calcutta—in The Nation and Vanity Fair, in the British documentary "Hell's Angel" and now in The Missionary Position (98 pages. Verso. $12.95)—he's found the muckraker's holy grail: the story to offend everyone. "Who would be so base," Hitchens writes in his foreword, "as to pick on a wizened, shrivelled old lady, well stricken in years, who has consecrated her entire life to the needy and the destitute?" Three guesses. But he's got his reasons.