Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa (1910-1997), born Anjeze Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia, was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India. While primarily known for her humanitarian work among the poor and dying, her religious life offers significant insights into practical theology and the question of God. Her spiritual writings, particularly "Come Be My Light" (2007), reveal profound mystical experiences alongside periods of spiritual darkness and doubt lasting nearly fifty years. This paradoxical relationship with divine presence and absence has prompted scholarly examination of the "dark night of the soul" phenomenon, theodicy, and the nature of faith amid suffering. Her embodiment of divine love through radical service, despite experiencing God's felt absence, presents a unique case study in lived theology and the relationship between faith, doubt, and moral action.