A Decade Later, Reassessing Mother Teresa’s Hospice Care

On the tenth anniversary of her canonization, the piece defends Mother Teresa against critics like Christopher Hitchens who alleged neglect of pain relief at Calcutta’s Kalighat hospice, arguing she worked to alleviate suffering amid 1980s shortages, used pain relief when possible, and treated patients with dignity; care at Kalighat has improved over the decades and she ran a hospice focused on comforting the dying, not a hospital.