MOTHER TERESA - MIRROR OF BOURGEOIS GUILT

For Mother Teresa poverty is the condition of saintliness. Poverty, th en, ceases to be bad and instead becomes something to be celebrated. T he poor can be treated with condescension as those who will redeem the world by their acceptance of charity. Such an approach becomes a part of a global enterprise for the alleviation of bourgeois guilt rather than a genuine challenge to those forces that produce and maintain pov erty.