[Goanet]RE: REDIFF.COM: The saint business

2003-10-25 Thread Bosco - Goanet Volunteer
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 09:21:17 +0400, Imran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why is so much hulla bulla made about the beatification of Mother Theresa ?? can any one of us do a quarter of what she has done alll her life for the poor, needy and the neglected !! It is so much easy to write coulmns against

[Goanet]RE: REDIFF.COM: The saint business

2003-10-30 Thread Santosh Helekar
Filomena Giese wrote: > >As far as any cool-headed reader can tell, Srinivasan has not attacked Mother Teresa. > It turns out that Christopher Hitchens, the author of "The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice" has just written a scathing article in an Australian news pub

Re: [Goanet]RE: REDIFF.COM: The saint business

2003-10-28 Thread Filomena Giese
As far as any cool-headed reader can tell, Srinivasan has not attacked Mother Teresa. His column was not directed to Goans, but we have plenty of Goan priests and Church historians who could counter his historical statements about St. Thomas and St. Francis Xavier. If they have the true facts th

Re: [Goanet]RE: REDIFF.COM: The saint business

2003-10-31 Thread Filomena Giese
I just heard an interesting interview on the radio with the writer, Philip Roth. He talked about his school education and what made him take up a writing career, something totally different from what his parents had done and had expected of him. He said that he had good or fair teachers most of th