Mother Teresa: No Greater Love

I wasn't too sure if I was going to enjoy this movie, as I was alive when she was, so I thought I already knew a lot that there was to know about Mother Teresa. I expected to watch a movie about the life of Mother Teresa when she lived years ago and far away, but I was startled to see a movie about our current society. This woman treated every person with dignity, no matter their status, attractiveness or religion. To her, each one represents Jesus. I came away chastised for my own attitudes of the marginalized, but also willing to change and treat others as the beautiful persons they are. Worth your time.

Mother Teresa: No Greater Love is a beautiful documentary that will keep you captivated for the two hour runtime more than most other films.

Episodes from the life of Mother Teresa - her childhood in Albania, her leaving as a young women for India as a Loreto Sister, her "call within a call" to enter the slums of Calcutta to serve the poorest of the poor - are woven seamlessly into present day vignettes from some of the more than 700 Missionary of Charity homes around the world today.

To see Mother and her Sisters serve the poorest of the poor is to encounter the love of God. Thank you David Naglieri for producing this beautiful film.

I went into this not knowing much about Mother Teresa. I didn't even know she'd been canonized (officially declared a Saint). She dedicated her entire life to the poor and sick. That's all she did her entire life was give her time to them. She'd go from place to place wherever she was needed most. She personally went into dangerous situations to get people out so they could get help. This documentary consisted of interviews from people that knew her. They talked about the kind of person she was and told lots of stories. That added films and pictures of her and it is so well done. This is truly one of the most touching and inspiring films I've ever seen and I'm not even religious. We all could learn so much from her. She didn't judge anyone, she just wanted to help.

"MT Mother Teresa was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction." - Christopher Hitchens Please read The Missionary Position, Mother Theresa in Theory and Practice by Hitchens.

Sadly the myth is perpetuated by movies like this one. The reality is dark, painful, and built on the suffering of others. Come to think of it, the reality is much more representative of religion than the myth. Anyhow, give Hitchens a read.

This movie highlights the good that she did and feeds into the positive stereotypical view people have of mother Teresa but doesn't address the less talked about evils she committed. Forced deathbed conversions, providing extremely poor medical care,her links to colonialism & racism, as well as her links to some questionable public figures as well. These are all washed away so they can portray her as an ideal, one that she really wasn't if you take the time to look into her background with objectivity. This movie needs to be labeled as a work of fiction for its portrayal of her as a "saint", and not the opportunistic money hungry sadist she truly was.