Father Duffy’s Reflections: The Mob

When Mother Teresa opened her first hospital for the sick poor in Calcutta, a mob of orthodox Hindus believed she was trying to Christianize the sick.  Stones and bricks were hurled at the hospital and the nuns.  LaPierre, in his City of Joy, reported that Mother Teresa threw herself at the feet of the mob and cried, “Kill me!  And I’ll be in heaven all the sooner.”  An officer who came to expel the “foreign nun” saw the horrible cases the nuns were caring for and told the mob, “When your mothers and sisters come and do the same work as these nuns, then I’ll expel her.”

Duffy, Father Edwin J.  Father Duffys Reflections:  Thoughtful Meditations for Our Present Time.  Hawaii Catholic Herald:  Copyright 1997.