I've read a lot of biographies of saints and such, and one thing they all have in common, as long as they're real biographies and not the folk myths that grew up around some of them, is that they struggled with faith like everyone else, often much more intensely. Saints are still people, they're still imperfect. Everyone, even them, has imperfect faith, they just notice their imperfection more, and that hurts. Sometimes they'll write things that seem to be exaggerations to less saintly people, stuff about feeling like they have no faith, even though their actions clearly show their faith. That's why that one guy in the article said these letters actually help her case.
Of course, that's pretty convenient because if Mother Teresa actually did lose faith it could always be blown off with the explanation I just gave. Still, she's one person, and one person's spiritual struggles can never be generalized to everyone, no matter how famous that person is.
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