Mother Teresa
Sir: In your article ' Anti-antiporn ' you observe.' that -Lord Longford and his committee Were on occasions 'genuinely ridiculous.' That may be, but you might do well to ensure that you do not lay yourself open to a similar charge. You write that 'the deeds of the Inquisition speak louder in history than the miracles of Mother Teresa.' A nice-sounding phrase, but it is obvious that you were confounding the famous Saint Teresa of Avila with Mother
• Feresa the nun whose devoted self-sacrificing labours on behalf of the starving Indian poor have lately been made known to the British public on television. That she works miracles has never been claimed, nor is it permissible to refer to the Saint as 'Mother Teresa.' Obviously, I do not expect you to publish this letter and probably the blunder (which one would not expect, from a writer even superficially acquainted with his tory) has already been pointed out to you.
Ralph Edw3rds Suffolk House, Chiswick Mall, London W4
George Gale writes: I am fully aware of the distinction between St Teresa and Mother Teresa; and it was Mother Teresa to whom 1 was referring, in the context of Malcolm Muggeridge's remarks in the Longford Report. Mother
eresa may not claim that she has worked miracles, but Muggeridge has advanced the claim, and on television at that. The blunder is not mine, Mr Edwards.
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