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Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, feted by the Cathedral, politicians and the planet's press, Mother Teresa of Calcutta seems to be on the fast-track to sainthood. But what, asks Christopher Hitchens, makes Mother Teresa therefore heavenly?In a frank show of the Teresa conspiracy, Hitchens details the character and limitations of 1 girl's quest for the world's bad. He probes the origin of the status given upon an Albanian nun whose only reported desire would be to offer God. He asks whether Mother Teresa's great works solution any greater goal compared to need of the world's fortunate to observe somebody, somewhere, doing something for the 3Rd World.