Or maybe, in Mother Teresa’s case, the rational, calculating motivation behind her deeds was more complex. We know now that she questioned her religious faith and the existence of God.4 Her doubts apparently began shortly after she started to minister to the poor and sick in Calcutta. By then maybe she felt locked into the religious life she chose for herself. Doubting God and ill-prepared for a life outside the Church, perhaps she found a perfect strategy for gaining the acclaim in life that she feared might not exist after death.
