Courtney McGrailDear Editor, I read with interest David Quinn’s article (IC 8/9/16) on the critics of Mother Teresa who have been so vocal in recent days. Strange though it may sound Mother Teresa did have one rather unlikely admirer. In his autobiography written some years ago, Bob Geldof speaks very favourably of Mother Teresa. The work is entitled Is That It? and in it Geldof speaks about meeting Mother during the terrible Ethiopian famine in the 1980s. Bob is not generally known for conferring excessive praise on traditional Catholicism but he speaks of Mother Teresa of being a “true saint”. With so many critics emerging from the woodwork in recent days I feel it is worth mentioning that Mother had this unlikely admirer.
Yours, etc,
Fr Iggy O’Donovan,
Limerick City, Co. Limerick.